Preferred Label : navicular fat stripe sign;
Definition : Displacement or absence of normal lucency seen between radial collateral ligament
next to the scaphoid and the synovial tendon sheaths of the abductor pollicis longus
and extensor pollicis brevis. Suggests fracture of scaphoid, radial styloid process,
or first metacarpal.;
Source : Eisenberg, Ronald L. Atlas of Signs in Radiology.;
Origin ID : RID35395;
Associated condition(s)
Displacement or absence of normal lucency seen between radial collateral ligament
next to the scaphoid and the synovial tendon sheaths of the abductor pollicis longus
and extensor pollicis brevis. Suggests fracture of scaphoid, radial styloid process,
or first metacarpal.
