CT Wrist - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. This lesson is about the wrist as seen in CT imaging. We'll start with a volume rendered image. This is a volume rendered CT image of the right wrist. We're looking at an anterior view. CT imaging of the wrist typically demonstrates three different bone groups: the forearm, which includes the radius and ulna the carpal bones, which include eight total bones and CT imaging of the wrist will also demonstrate the base of the metacarpals the five long bones within the hand. The metacarpals are not technically part of the wrist, but they are always visible when imaging the wrist. We can see the wrist is not really one joint, but many joints between many different bones. The wrist is typically subdivided into three distinct articulations. The distal articulation between the radius and ulna is simply called the radial ulnar joint. The articulation between the radius and the carpal bones is called the radiocarpal joint. The articulation between the upper and lower rows of the carpal bones is called the mid