Interpretation of Radiographs Performed for Investigation of Upper Limb Injury

Musculoskeletal trauma is one of the common reasons for attendance to Accident & Emergency and/or primary care. Appendicular radiographs, with the chest radiograph, constitute the commonest plain radiographic investigations the population undergo. Diagnosis is often straightforward, but certain patterns of injury may be more complex and elude detection. Reliance on a single investigation, and particularly a single view, at one time point without proper clinicoradiological correlation and follow-up can have detrimental consequences.