Delayed radiographs are routinely done to help in diagnosis of occult scaphoid fractures. Our aim was to determine the diagnostic value of these late x-rays. This is a radio-diagnostic study. We prospectively reviewed radiographs of 67 patients with injury to their wrists who presented with anatomical snuff box to the accident and emergency department.5 patients showed up a fracture of the scaphoid on trauma x-rays and they were excluded from the study. All patients had a radiograph on day of presentation as well as a delayed radiograph at a later date. The radiographs were standardized to include 4 scaphoid views. All the radiographs were reported independently by a consultant radiologist (JN) and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon (ML).Objective
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