Positioning 1
The amount of collimation distal to the wrist joint for a PA projection.
The type deviation used to show the scaphoid better.
What is ulnar deviation?
The pathology marked by loss of bone density, creating porous bones.
What is osteoporosis?
The crescent-shaped carpal bone.
The type of bone that carpals are.
What are short bones?
The CR entrance point for a PA oblique projection.
What is the midcarpal area?
The 3 projections used for a standard wrist exam.
What is PA, PA oblique, and lateral?
Pathology marked by fluid within a joint space.
What is a joint effusion?
The carpal bone that forms a saddle joint with the thumb.
What is the trapezium?
The number of carpal bones within the body.
What are 16 carpal bones?
The type of lateral projection used for lateral wrist exams.
What is lateromedial?
The degree of obliquity for PA oblique wrist exams.
What is 45 degrees?
The type of fracture commonly seen when someone falls on the outstretched hand and breaks their wrist.
What is an impacted fracture?
The type of movement within the carpometacarpal joints.
What is diarthrotic?
The type of bone marking that lies on the hamate bone.
What is hamulus?
The name of the method for carpal bridge projections.
What is the Gaynor-Hart Method?
The amount of angulation for the IR in a PA axial projection.
What is 20 degrees?
The type of fracture caused when a small chunk of bone attached to a tendon or ligament gets pulled away from the main part of the bone.
What is avulsion fracture?
The carpal bone that articulates with the 2nd metacarpal.
What is the trapezoid?
The most lateral carpal bone in the distal row.
What is the trapezium?
The amount of angulation used for tangential carpal bridge projections.
What is 25-30 degrees?
The name of the method for axial scaphoid projections.
What is the Stecher Method?
The nerve that gets compressed in carpal tunnel syndrome cases.
What is the median nerve?
The most commonly fractured carpal bone.
What is the scaphoid?
The type of joints between carpal bones.
What are gliding joints?