Change: Moved by AndyC Feb 8 2010, 7:20 AM EST

Change:  in treatment decisions, the radiographer can make an informed judgement as to whether to repeat the view.....back ... back to the Applied Radiography home page ... back to the Wikiradiography home page   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2106)

Change: accepatbilityacceptability criteria regionsadapted from Charles A. Goldfarb, MD, Yuming Yin, MD, Louis A. Gilula, MD, Andrew J. Fisher, MD and Martin I. Boyer, MD What the Clinician Wants to Know Wrist Fractures: What the Clinician Wants to Know1 Radiology. 2001;219:11-28.A prima facie well positioned lateral wrist!pisiform   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2097)

Change:  videos are displayed at lower resolution when 'hot-linked'. Click on the botttom rigth corner of the video and it will open at full resolution.)DiscussionUsing the criteria described above a radiographer can determine with accuracy the acceptability   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2078)

Change: Note: images orientated to allow comparison with the wrist images above.adapted fromBy I. A. Kapandji. The physiology of the joints. Edition: 2. 1981Axial Section of the Wrist During Pronation and Supinationadapted fromRaoul Tubiana, Jean-Michel Thomine, Evelyn MackinExamination of the Hand   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2031)

Change: These are standard forearm radiography views. Note that the profile of the ulna styloid suggests that this technique produces two views of the ulna at ninety degrees. Importantly, the distal ulna appears to have rotated through ninety degrees.adapted fromBy I. A. Kapandji. The physiology   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 2020)

Change: The radiographic technique advise on wrist positioning is confusing. The technique described below appears to be a Radiologist's approach to achieving "standard projections" of the   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1984)

Change: Same patient as above. The radiographer has recognised the positioning error and rotated the patients wrist in a palmar (volar)direction. The pisiform (dotted white) is   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1689)

Change: This position is acceptable using the Goldfarb et al criteria...but only just. The palmer surface of the pisiform is only just more dorsally located than the palmer surface of the scaphoid. Why is a True Lateral Wrist Position Important?Treatment decisions for Colles fractures are   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1550)

Change: This position is acceptable using the Goldfarb et al criteria. The palmer surface of the pisiform appears to fall within the more dorsal third of the accepatbility criteria regionsWhy is a True Lateral Wrist Position Important?Treatment decisions for Colles fractures are partly   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1368)