Imaging the symptomatic wrist.

1. Imaging studies are useful adjuncts to clinical evaluation. 2. Conventional radiographs remain the keystone of the imaging evaluation of wrist disorders owing to their broad survey capabilities and cost-effectiveness. 3. CT and MRI are excellent to delineate process extent and to improve lesion characterization. 4. MRI and nuclear medicine provide for greater sensitivity for detection and activity of disease, but at a cost of less specificity and greater expense.