Wrist and Hand

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) of paediatric wrists and hands can be a challenge due to age-specific physiological development and findings. MSUS of the hands and wrists is an important tool to diagnose inflammatory conditions, and the examiner must be highly knowledgeable about the normal age-related findings in these anatomic regions. This chapter covers the most important standard scans of paediatric wrists and hands and gives an overview of the normal paediatric sonoanatomy. In this chapter, basic pathologic findings are demonstrated by examples from paediatric rheumatology.