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Can you comment on the check rainin ligamentous structures

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and their importance in the report clinically?

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Christine, I'll leave that one to you as the finger guru.

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Thanks. So the check rain ligaments are sort

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of these elastic U-shaped fibers,

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and they're along the proximal attachment at the level

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of the PIP joint.

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And honestly, we describe them a lot when we're looking at

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the anatomy, but I think they're pretty tough to identify

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through imaging, even with some high resolution Mr imaging.

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Sometimes the hand surgeons will talk about that

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with respect to stabilization,

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but I have to say it's kind of challenging

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to see them on Mr.

0:35

Um, Don Steve, what do you think about that?

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Oh, I, I'm glad you answered the question

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because my,

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my answer would've been a lot shorter and a lot vaguer.

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So

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This is kind of the neighborhood of them,

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but you kind of need, you need the microscopy

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coil to really Yeah.

0:52

Winow them out and then you can see them.

0:54

Yep. Okay. Uh, I think, uh, uh, first of all,

0:57

Christine, again, thank you.

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I, I wanted to ask you one thing,

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and that is at our hospitals, do we have a finger coil?

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We don't have a finger coil.

1:07

We do a lot of the imaging either with microscopy,

1:09

surface coils or with the wrist coil.

1:12

So there's surface coils, not a circumferential tubular

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or solenoid coil for finger.

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Yeah, because I was very impressed with the resolution

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of a lot of your, IM your images.