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Shoulder and Elbow Anatomy

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Abstract

The shoulder is highly mobile; in fact, it is the joint with the greatest range of motion of the body. The downside is, unfortunately, instability. While the shoulder allows circumduction, movements at the elbow are more restricted (flexion/extension and pronation/supination). This chapter provides an overview of the bony anatomy of the shoulder and elbow, their articulations, and muscular and ligamentous attachments.

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  1. CISSS-CA Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis, Lévis, QC, Canada

    Vanessa Quinn-Laurin

  2. Central Alberta Medical Imaging Services, Red Deer, AB, Canada

    Ramin Mandegaran

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  1. Vanessa Quinn-Laurin
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  1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

    Tim Van den Wyngaert

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Gopinath Gnanasegaran

  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Klaus Strobel

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  1. Central Alberta Medical Imaging Services, Red Deer, AB, Canada

    Ramin Mandegaran

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Quinn-Laurin, V., Mandegaran, R. (2023). Shoulder and Elbow Anatomy. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_37

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