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Imaging of Hand and Wrist Trauma

Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe

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Imaging of the hand and wrist has been a staple of radiology, beginning with the first performed radiograph of Dr. Wilhelm Roentgen’s wife in 1895. The first clinical radiograph was performed 1 year later for wrist trauma and depicted a Colles’ fracture [1]. Injuries to the hand and wrist reportedly account for approximately 20% of visits to the emergency department [2], totaling approximately 3.5 million hand and wrist injuries in 2009 with an incidence of 1130 injuries per 100,000 persons per year in the United States [3].

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Pollock, J.R., Wong, T., Long, J., Flug, J. (2021). Imaging of Hand and Wrist Trauma. In: Patlas, M.N., Katz, D.S., Scaglione, M. (eds) Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44092-3_39-1

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