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From: Ultrasonography and color Doppler in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: diagnosis and follow-up of ultrasound-guided steroid injection in the wrist region. A descriptive interventional study

Figure 5

To avoid diagnostic errors, it is important to have good knowledge of the normal US appearance of age-related ossification of cartilaginous carpal bones in young children. a Dorsal sagittal US scan of the wrist in a 6-year-old girl showing a normal hypoechoic cartilaginous lunate bone (*); mc3 = metacarpal 3. b Palmar transversal US scan of the wrist in a 4-year-old boy showing a normal hypoechoic cartilaginous hook of the hamate (*). c Palmar transversal US scan of the wrist in a 2-year-old girl showing a normal hypoechoic cartilaginous pisiform bone (*) and a hypertrophic hypoechoic piso-triquetral recess (syn).

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Pediatric Rheumatology

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