Hand and Wrist

Offers more than 9000 images of normal anatomy and 1,200 correlative images from CT, MRI and histology. This second disc of the second volume enables medical professionals to explore interactively the major structures in the hand and wrist region in their topographical setting.

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"Hand & Wrist" is the second disc of the second volume of the most complete anatomical atlas available in electronic format - no printed medium can offer this amount of information. This volume comprises the anatomy of the Upper Limb, which, next to the "Shoulder Joint & Axilla" (appeared in 1996), will be completed by the "Elbow Joint & Cubital Fossa". "Hand & Wrist" offers you more than 9000 images of normal anatomy and 1,200 correlative images from CT, MRI and histology, and enables medical professionals - especially hand surgeons, plastic and reconstructive surgeons, traumatologists, general and orthopedic surgeons, radiologists, anatomists and neurosurgeons - to explore interactively the major structures in the hand and wrist region in their topographical setting, e.g. the carpal tunnel and its contents, Guyon's loge and the carpal bones and ligaments, the median and ulnar nerve and their branches, the detailed configuration of thenar and hypothenar muscles, lumbricals and interossei, extensor apparatus and wing tendons, and the topography of the superficial and deep palmar arches. You will be able e.g. to trace the digital nerves back to their origin in the ulnar and median nerve, and vice versa.
It provides a unique view of structures, to be studied in three different planes. "Hand & Wrist" also includes Mallory-Cason stained histological images in the axial plane from the same hand and wrist region. All structures are displayed as continuous cross-sectional photographs in coronal, sagittal and axial directions, all within the same tissue block. Cross-sections can be magnified up to 4 times, and anatomy, CT, MRI and histology can be viewed in a "split-screen" mode. These sophisticated, high-density images can be displayed as stills or video, while the structure names (over 22,000 labels in each viewing direction) can be displayed with a click, not only in the normal anatomy view, but also in the enlarged view. You can also travel step-wise through the images. Labels are available in English and according to the latest Nomina Anatomica. Many features included in the disc - such as "split-screen" mode, "zoom" function, labelling in the "zoom" function, structure names in English - are the result of continuous market research and user feedback.