Ultrasonography of the Upper Extremity Hand and Wrist /

• Main Author: Draghi, Ferdinando (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Rheumatology.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Ultrasound.; Diagnostic Radiology.

This practice-oriented book, containing a wealth of high-quality ultrasound images, provides clear, concise, and complete coverage of the normal anatomy of the hand and wrist – tendons, nerves, and vascular structures – as well as the main pathologic conditions encountered in this area. The ultrasou...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Extensor tendons in the wrist: anatomy
• Extensor tendons in the wrist: pathology
• De Quervain disease
• Intersection syndrome
• Wartenberg syndrome
• Flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, flexor carpi ulnaris: anatomy and pathology
• Carpal tunnel: anatomy
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Guyon canal
• Tendons of the digits: anatomy and pathology
• The Pulleys and sagittal bands
• Dupuytren disease
• The ulnar collateral ligament of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the thumb
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Ganglia.- Foreign bodies
• Vascular disorders of the hand and wrist.