Patient Positioning
Patient seated facing the examiner with extended arm, palm up. The arm is resting comfortably on the examination table. Placing a pillow under the elbow leads to full extension of the joint.
Probe Positioning
Place the transducer on a lateral sagittal plane over the humeroradial joint. Bony landmarks are the humeral capitellum cranial and radial head distal.
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Note: hyperechoic crystals in a patient wiht longlasting CPPD
Note: hyperechoic crystals within the cartilage in a patient with longlasting CPPD
Note: another patient with cppd deposits of the articular cartilage