Imaging of Hand and Wrist Trauma
摘要
Imaging of the hand and wrist has been a staple of radiology, beginning with the first performed radiograph of Dr. Wilhelm Roentgen’s wife in 1895. The first clinical radiograph was performed one year later for wrist trauma and depicted a Colles’ fracture (Spiegel, AJR [Internet], https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/ajr.164.1.7998549 ). Injuries to the hand and wrist account for approximately 20% of visits to the emergency department (Putter et al. Injury [Internet] 44:421–6, 2013), totaling approximately 3.5 million hand and wrist injuries in 2009 with an incidence of 1130 injuries per 100,000 persons per year in the United States (Ootes et al. The epidemiology of upper extremity injuries presenting to the emergency department in the United States – PMC [Internet], https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3280373/ ). In addition, a population-based study in the United States found the prevalence of wrist fractures among adults increased from 8.7% in 1999 to 2000 to 12.8% in 2017 to 2020 (Xu et al. Trends in prevalence of fractures among adults in the United States, 1999–2020: a population-based study – PMC [Internet], https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10871608/ ).