Os Paratrapezium

Description

Os Paratrapezium and either a subacute fracture of the ossicle or os epitrapezium

Name

• Os paratrapezium
• Paratrapezial Ossicle
• Accessory Ossicle of the Trapezium
• Trapezium Accessory Bone
• Accessory Carpal Ossicle Near the Trapezium
• Paratrapezium Bone

General

• Accessory ossicle of the wrist
• Located between distal radial aspect of trapezium, base of 1st metacarpal

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Clinical Significance

• Sometimes mistaken for a fracture

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See Also

• Hand And Wrist Anatomy
• Physical Exam Hand
• Wrist Pain Main

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