Diagnosis of ulnar wrist pain.

WRIST PAIN RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS – blinded Word count 1634 with title and abstract in count THREE CASES OF WRIST PAIN AND ULNAR HYPOPLASIA

Ulnar-sided wrist pain: diagnosis and treatment.

Ulnar-sided wrist pain has often been equated with low back pain because of its insidious onset, vague and chronic nature, intermittent symptoms, and frustration that it induces in patients. Chronic ulnar-sided wrist pain may be accompanied by a history of workers' compensation claims and unrelenting and irresolvable pain, and it may occur in patients with dfficult personalities. Despite these ...

Imaging findings in ulnar-sided wrist impaction syndromes.

Impaction syndromes related to ulnar-sided pain include ulnar impaction syndrome, ulnar impingement syndrome, ulnocarpal impaction syndrome secondary to nonunion of the ulnar styloid process, ulnar styloid impaction syndrome, and hamatolunate impingement syndrome. The most common of these, ulnar impaction syndrome, is a degenerative condition of the ulnar side of the wrist related to excessive ...

Evaluation and diagnosis of wrist pain: a case-based approach.

Patients with wrist pain commonly present with an acute injury or spontaneous onset of pain without a definite traumatic event. A fall onto an outstretched hand can lead to a scaphoid fracture, which is the most commonly fractured carpal bone. Conventional radiography alone can miss up to 30 percent of scaphoid fractures. Specialized views (e.g., posteroanterior in ulnar deviation, pronated obl...

Osteoblastoma of the proximal ulna, an unusual cause of ulnar wrist pain. A case report.

During the diagnostic investigation of a patient with ulnar wrist pain, a hot spot in the proximal ulna was revealed on the technetium scintigram, which was found on radiographs to correspond to an osteolytic lesion in the proximal ulna. The lesion was resected and the histological diagnosis was an osteoblastoma. The wrist symptoms disappeared after resection of the lesion in the proximal ulna.