Acute volar lunate dislocations are usually diagnosed by a lateral view radiographs of the affected wrist, which demonstrates a “spilled teacup” sign where the lunate is displaced volarly and ...

In the wrist, the semipronated oblique is useful in identifying scaphoid fractures, the most common carpal bone fracture (Fig. 3). The reverse oblique is quite useful for detecting fractures of ...

Three view right-wrist radiographs demonstrating disruption of Gilula’s lines are shown. These are ulnar styloid fracture anteroposterior (AP) (left), oblique (center) and volar lunate ...

Most occur on the dorsum of the wrist joint (70%) and arise from the scapholunate joint. Volar cysts are less common (20%) and arise from the radiocarpal or scaphotrapeziotrapezoidal (STT) joint.