You know that you don't have a navicular bone in the hand? It's the scaphoid. Incidentally, interesting point here is that scaphoid fractures often don't show up initially on x-ray. What we tend to do is splint the wrist and bring the person back to a fracture clinic to have further x-rays if we have any suspicion of a scaphoid fracture. Suspicion usually arises from tenderness in the 'anatomical snuff box' which is the area lying between the two obvious tendons to the thumb on the back of your hand (seen when you push your thumb out to the side). There we go, lesson for today over!!!! ;-)
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