Arthrography of the Wrist Joint for evaluating Rheumatoid arthritis and Injuries

Abstract

Wrist arthrography can be helpful in the evaluation of the chronically painful wrist including rheumatoid arthritis and injury and more by visualization of the integrity of the triangular fibrocartilage and interosseous ligaments.
This study was designed to demonstrate the pathomechanics of the rheumatoid wrist joint by showing the early synovial and cartilage changes one visible on plain film roentgenograms and by demonstrating how inflammatory changes progress with advancement of the rheumatoid process. Arthrography for the traumatic wrist pain, especially following sprain and Colles' fracture with avulsion of ulnar styloid, has suggested that these symptoms have been due to ulnar prestyloid synovitis and disfunction of carpal rotation.