Observation
The following features should be noted when observing the wrist:
- symmetry, left vs. right
- deformity e.g. Colles fracture and radial aplasia produce obvious radial deviation
- swelling: ganglia, rheumatoid nodules or tumours
- wasting: hypothenar and thenar eminences and the forearm
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