The articular disc of the wrist. Limits and relations.

The relationship between the discus articularis and its contiguous structures has been analyzed in 18 serially sectioned fetal hands. From this study, it can be concluded that these elements do not seem to be an extensive fibrous system emerging from the radius and reaching the metacarpal V, as it has been said, but a complex of clearly differentiated structures, of which further morphological details are given.