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Normal Palmar Tilt: is Dorsal Tilting Really Normal?From the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A Correspondence: Louis A. Gilula, M.D., Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 South Kingshighway Boulevard, St Louis, Missouri 63110, U.S.A. Palmar tilt measured on true lateral radiographs of 100 normal wrists revealed that dorsal palmar tilt is not found in the normal adult, and women generally have a larger palmar tilt (average 12.4°) than men (average 9.3°).
Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 17, No. 3,
315-317 (1992) |
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