AAP Grand Rounds 12:50-51 (2004)
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RADIOLOGY
Baby Wrist: A Maternal Overuse Syndrome
Source: Anderson SE, Steinbach LS, De Monaco D, et al. "Baby Wrist": MRI of an overuse syndrome in mothers. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004;182:719724.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
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This study from University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland, and the University of California, San Francisco, reports magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of "baby wrist," changes seen in the wrists and thumbs of 3 mothers (2 in the dominant right hand and 1 bilateral) at about 8 months postpartum. Repetitive, low-grade trauma to the wrist and thumb in 3 patients resulted from prolonged carrying of large, heavy babies while the maternal wrist was held in flexion and ulnar deviation and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Beverly P. Wood, MD, MscEd, FAAP
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Radiation, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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