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This section describes 19 actual cases of hand/wrist disease, which highlight the potential and limitations of ultrasonography in the study of the most common lesions.

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Draghi, F. (2014). Case Studies. In: Ultrasonography of the Upper Extremity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02162-1_20

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