Sonographic Assessment of Hand Injuries: Diagnostic Accuracy and Review of Pathology.

: The high soft-tissue contrast of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) makes it useful for evaluation of hand injuries, but its limitations include cost, imaging artifacts, and patient claustrophobia. Ultrasound is readily available, fast, noninvasive, and radiation free, but its utility for the evaluation of hand soft-tissue injury and pathology is less well known. : We sought to examine the accuracy of ultrasound for the evaluation of hand injury at a single institution.