The crowded wrist-a case with accessory carpal bones
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Coordinate systems for the carpal bones of the wrist.
The eight small and complexly shaped carpal bones of the wrist articulate in six degrees of freedom with each other and to some extent with the radius and the metacarpals. With the increasing number and sophistication of studies of the carpus, a standardized definition for a coordinate system for each the carpal bones would aid in the reporting and comparison of findings. This paper presents a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0001-6470
DOI: 10.3109/17453679909000970