Pitfalls of wrist MR imaging.
The radiologist serves as an indispensable consultant for those patients with wrist pain, by determining the causes of the pain and severity of the injury, helping to determine treatment options, and providing preoperative guidance for surgery, if planned. This article reviews normal anatomic variants and potential danger areas encountered by the radiologist when interpreting magnetic resonance imaging of the wrist.
Department of Radiology, MC 20-07, Geisinger Medical Center, 100 North Academy Avenue, Danville, PA 17822, USA. wjmalone@geisinger.edu
W James
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Malone
Robert
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Snowden
Fozail
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Alvi
Joel C
JC
Klena
D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014953:Wrist / Q000033:anatomy & histology*