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Injury to the wrist or hand is often significant because of the risk of permanent functional impairment.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Additionally, traumatic injury can be easily overlooked because signs may be subtle on conventional radiology and satisfaction of search poses risk of incomplete assessment. Other potential factors that create risk of errors in wrist assessment are nonstandardized acquisition, overlooking subtle signs of osseous trauma, neglecting soft tissue trauma, not performing additional imaging despite persistent suspicion of traumatic injury, traumatic injury, and misinterpretation of normal variants and trauma mimics.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Thus adequate clinical information on the radiology request is essential to initiate an optimized imaging strategy to detect fractures or dislocations and identify normal variants. 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