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Foreign body (rose thorn)

Patient Positioning

Patient seated in front of the examiner, hand palm down resting on a examination table.

Probe Positioning

Place the transducer on longitudinal planes over the joints and digits of interest. Do not use any pressure - especially while looking for effusion or using doppler mode.

Probe Placement Hand
Probe Placement Hand
note: patient with a long foreign body at the subcutaneous tissue of a finger (trauma with a rose thorn).
note: patient with a small foreign body at the subcutaneous tissue of a finger (trauma with piece of glass).

note: patient with a very small foreign body at the subcutaneous tissue of a finger (trauma with a rose thorn).