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Hand Clin · Feb 2022 · Review

Christen S, Vögelin E

Hand Surgery and Surgery of Peripheral Nerves, Plastic and Surgery, Inselspital, Switzerland

Hand & Upper Extremity

SUMMARY — THE REDUCTIONOffice ultrasonography enables surgeons to directly visualize soft tissue pathology, guide injections, and plan surgical management without referring for imaging.
Abstract, as published

Ultrasonography in hand surgery offers the option of imaging trauma consequences or degenerative problems in the wrist and fingers, involving bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, annular pulley, carpal and digital changes, soft masses, and foreign bodies including dynamic changes during motion. In the hands of the treating surgeon, ultrasonography allows immediately to plan conservative treatment versus surgery, to precisely infiltrate joints or tendon spaces as well as to perform miniinvasive assisted surgery.

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