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Hand and Wrist: Carpal Boss and Painful Accessory Ossicles

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This chapter describes the etiopathogenesis, clinical features, and the role of conventional radiological and bone SPECT/CT imaging in assessing painful accessory ossicles.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India

    Ujwal Bhure

  2. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, Switzerland

    Ujwal Bhure

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

    Klaus Strobel

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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. Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET/CT, Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India

    Ujwal Bhure

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Bhure, U., Strobel, K. (2023). Hand and Wrist: Carpal Boss and Painful Accessory Ossicles. 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_60

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