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With contributions by numerous experts

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This book provides a complete overview of all modalities used for hand and wrist imaging, along with a complete over- view of the various disease entities that can be diagnosed. As a state-of-the-art overview of hand and wrist imaging it is a reference work for radiologists, hand surgeons, ortho- pedists, traumatologists, rheumatologists and internists and their residents in training. The chapters are written by ex- perts in musculoskeletal radiology from various European countries and the USA.

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Radiography of the wrist and hand.- Conventional arthrography.- Computed tomography.- Ultrasound, high resolution US and power doppler.- MRI.- Dynamic MRI of the hand and wrist.- Bone scintigraphy.- Normal skeletal development of the hand.- Congenital defects, malformation syndromes and skeletal dysplasias.- The hand in endocrine disorders.- Osteoporosis and bone densitometry.- Degenerative disease of the hand and wrist.- Rheumatic diseases.- Bone and soft tissue infections.- Imaging of soft tissue tumors of the hand and wrist.- Primary osseous tumors of the hand.- Instability of the wrist.- Trauma of the hand and wrist.- MR imaging of the carpal tunnel syndrome.- Angiography and vascular disorders of the hand.- Osteonecrosis of the carpal bones.- Ungual and subungual disease.

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