Hand: Radiographic Anatomy - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome to today's lesson to review radiographic anatomy demonstrated on routine projections of the hand. In a previous lesson, we discussed the anatomy of the hand and which radiographic projections are routinely performed. So let's tie that information to the radiographs themselves. As a reminder, the routine radiographic projections of the hand are PA, PA oblique, and lateral. Take a look at this radiograph. What projection is being demonstrated? How do you know? While you might have correctly guessed PA projection of the hand, it's important to know the evaluation criteria to ensure it is a true PA view. We can tell this is a PA by the symmetric appearance of the concavities of the metacarpal and phalangeal shafts of digits two through five, and the appearance of equal amounts of soft tissue on each side of phalanges two through five. Also note, this projection demonstrates an oblique view of the first digit. Let's identify the anatomy in this image.