The wrist radiograph checklist is just one of the many pathology checklists that can be used when reporting to ensure that you always actively exclude pathology that is commonly missed; this is particularly helpful in the examination setting, e.g. the FRCR 2B rapid-reporting.
Radiograph
Wrist radiographs in an exam setting will have been primarily performed because of a history of pain or trauma.
Alignment
- dorsal intercalated segment instability (DISI)
- volar intercalated segment instability (VISI)
- scapholunate interval widening
- scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse (SNAC)
- dislocated 5th carpometacarpal joint
- perilunate dislocation
- lunate dislocation
- Galeazzi fracture-dislocation
Distal radius
Distal ulna
Wrist joint/ capsule
Carpal/ metacarpal bones
- scaphoid fracture
- lunate AVN
- enchondroma
- triquetrum fracture
- scaphotrapeziotrapezoidal (STT or triscaphe) joint arthropathy
- four-corner fusion
- carpal coalition
- Rolando fracture
- Bennett fracture
- osteoporosis
- melorheostosis
- carpal bossing