Family physicians can treat most finger fractures and dislocations, but when necessary, prompt referral to an orthopedic or hand surgeon is important to maximize future function. Examination includes radiography (oblique, anteroposterior, and true lateral views) and physical examination to detect fractures. Dislocation reduction is accomplished with careful traction. If successful, further trea...

A collection of Native Alaskan remains from Point Barrow, Alaska is currently housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The collection was examined for evidence of frostbite to the bones of the hands and feet based on radiographic frostbite damage that has been found in present populations and paleopathologically. Bones of the hands and feet were present f...

Introduction Imagine the excitement accompanying the first realization that noninvasive visualization of bones was possible. German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was working in a darkened room on November 8, 1895, experimenting with electrical charges flowing through a vacuum tube, when a piece of paper coated with barium platinum cyanide glowed. Coincidentally, it had been left near a card...

endobronchial tuberculosis and chest radiography i read, with interest, the article entitled “clinical and para-clinical presentations of endobronchial tuberculosis” by ahmadi hoseini h. s. et al. (1) published in this journal. i would like to focus on some details about the chest x-ray of patients as elaborated by the authors in the results section. accordingly, the findings of chest radiograp...

Diagnostic radiography is a leading cause of man-made radiation exposure to the population. Individual risk assessment and analytic epidemiologic studies likewise require retrospective assessment of lifelong exposure from medical sources. Typical schemes attempt to determine accumulated doses of specific „critical organs“. The organ dose to the red bone marrow is relevant in studies of diseases...

Madelung's deformity (MD) occurs as a result of premature closure the medial and volar aspects distal radial physis.1 It is more frequent severe in girls, usually develops middle/late childhood.2 MD one most characteristic features he short-stature homeobox gene (SHOX) deficiency, which causes short stature3. Radial bowing well-known radiological futures. On other hand, there are three typical ...