QUESTIONS OF THE HANDSURGEON TO THE RADIOLOGIST - A SURVEY ON THE MOST COMMON LESIONS IN THE HAND AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF DIAGNOSTIC-TOOLS ON THEIR THERAPY

By the rapid development of imaging techniques, a significant gap deve loped between the knowledge of the radiologists and that of the hand s urgeons on specific indications of the different technical possibiliti es. The problems to be solved by both specialties together are analyze d. Examples of the most common lesions in the hand like trauma, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, congenital malformation, infection, tumour, rh eumatoid and other degenerative processes, nerve compression syndromes etc., are given, and the implications of diagnostic tools on their th erapy are discussed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.