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Given the patient's tenderness over the bony structures and the mechanism of injury, right wrist and thumb x-rays with scaphoid views were ordered. <a href="CaseStudyImages/CS1CollegiateDiverMa-902.jpg" title="Case Photo #1" data-lity><b>Case Photo #1</b></a> The x-rays were reviewed, and the lateral thumb view showed a nondisplaced scaphoid fracture. <a href="CaseStudyImages/CS2CS1CollegiateDive-902.jpg" title="Case Photo #2" data-lity><b>Case Photo #2</b></a> A CT scan of the right wrist was ordered and read as negative, but two slices in the coronal and axial planes showed what could be a fracture.
<br>After discussion with the hand surgeon, an MRI was ordered to determine acuteness of the fracture. The MRI showed imaging features compatible with a fracture of the proximal scaphoid with thick sclerosis in the bone at the fracture site, suggesting an acute on chronic fracture. <a href="CaseStudyImages/CS3CS2CS1CollegiateD-902.jpg" title="Case Photo #3" data-lity><b>Case Photo #3</b></a> <a href="CaseStudyImages/CS4CS3CS2CS1Collegia-902.jpg" title="Case Photo #4" data-lity><b>Case Photo #4</b></a>
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