Arthrography of the wrist joint. An experimental study.

Arthrography using 60 per cent Urografin was done on twenty fresh cadaver wrist joints. The wrists were then dissected and the arthrographic picture was correlated with the anatomical findings. The study showed that the contrast solution exactly delineated the radiocarpal joint cavity. It passed through all apertures into the adjacent joints. the arthrographic picture accurately corresponded to the anatomical observations. The pattern of a normal arthrogram was thus established. The preliminary results of a parallel clinical study in forty-nine patients are briefly described. I concluded that contrast arthrography can be helpful in the diagnosis of several conditions that show no findings on plain radiographs.