Diagnostic ultrasound and guided injection -- The shoulder : diagnostic imaging -- The shoulder : guided injection techniques -- The elbow : diagnostic imaging -- The elbow : guided injection techniques -- The wrist and hand : diagnostic imaging -- The wrist and hand : guided injection techniques -- The hip : diagnostic imaging -- The hip : guided injection techniques -- The knee : diagnostic imaging -- The knee : guided injection techniques -- The ankle and foot : diagnostic imaging -- The ankle and foot : guided injection techniques
Summary
Musculoskeletal ultrasound has seen a considerable surge in usage in recent years. Its advantages are manifold. Given adequate training of the examiner, it is very cost-effective; there is no ionizing radiation to contend with; the scanners are normally highly portable; and it enables certain interventional procedures to be performed with great accuracy (therapeutic injections of local anesthetics and/or corticosteroids into areas of complex anatomy, e.g., the shoulder). In this book, the anatomic areas are organized in chapter pairs, of which the first part of the pair summarizes the diagnost