RADIOGRAPH-LATERAL WRIST
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SUMMARY
1. Remember that you do not see the first row of bones - scaphoid & trapezium, but the second row - lunate & capitate.
2. The lunate appears as a moon shaped bone.
3. Important to detect SCAPHO-LUNATE DISLOCATION.
Image: Case courtesy of Dr Andrew Dixon, Radiopaedia.org. From the case rID: 43305 [Accessed 18 Apr. 2020].
Reference(s)
R.M.H McMinn (1998). Last’s anatomy: regional and applied. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Gray, H., Carter, H.V. and Davidson, G. (2017). Gray’s anatomy. London: Arcturus.
