Art of the Hand

The Common Vein Copyright 2011

Ashley Davidoff MD

The Beauty of Normal

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A Poignant Moment

The Hands Tell an Amazing Story

This painting on the Sistine chapel by Michelangelo has such poignancy in its depiction of a moment in time with a focus on the fingers of God and Adam.  If you cast your eye and open your mind to the image of God and angels you may perceive a sagittal section of the brain idepicted as a background with God’s angels embedded in the “brain”

13285 hand Michelangelo fingers index finger expression God reaching out shape

Hands of the Fetus

02351p.81s hands fetus umbilical cord abdomen fetus fingers anatomy Copyright 2009 Courtesy Ashley DAvidoff MD All rights reserved

Hands of the Fetus

02350p.8s hands fetus umbilical cord abdomen fetus fingers anatomy Copyright 2009 Courtesy Ashley DAvidoff MD All rights reserved

Hands of the Fetus

02352p.8s hands fetus umbilical cord abdomen fetus fingers anatomy Copyright 2009 Courtesy Ashley DAvidoff MD All rights reserved

Fingers in Thought

02354p.3k.8s fetus anatomy ear hand head nose shoulder mouth vessels tree Copyright 2009 Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD All rights reserved

Simple Beauty

45747.1.5k hand fingers opposing finger to thumb index finger the delicate pinky plain X-ray plain film Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD copyright 2008

 

Hheberden’s Ostearthropathy

89486p.8b01s hands osteoarthritis Heberden’s osteoarthropathy 90 year old female Davidoff photography copyright 2008

The Young, the Middle Aged and the Old

89507p.8s hands old middle age infant Charlotte North Carolina Davidoff photography copyright 2008

 

Handshake

06054pb01.8s Peru people Indian man hat men handshake links and connections hands Davidoff photography copyright 2009 impressionist all rights reserved

Stroke

48641c01.800 60 year old male brain area of decreased attenuation in the superior anterior frontal laobe fx encephalomalacia dx chronic infarction CTscan 3 D resurface rendering Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD

Rheumatoid Arthritis

77333c bone hand boutonniere or swan-neck deformities rheumatoid arthritis hand deformity dislocated metacarpophalangeal joints hand deformity dislocated metacarpophalangeal joints Swan-neck deformity is common in persons with RA. It occurs as the end result of rheumatoid synovitis of the metacarpophalangeal (MP), PIP, and/or DIP joints, which disrupts the balance of flexion and extension forces acting across a joint CTscan Courtesy Ashley Davidoff 3D copyright 2008

This hand Tells a Story of Temper Tantrum in a Young Male usually between 14 and 40

Fisted Wall or Door  Punch

77203c01s hand carpal 5th metacarpal Boxer’s fracture shape deformity bone trauma plain X-ray Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD copyright 2008

Young,  in Need of Help With Temper Control, Healing

72175c02 15 year old with pain after punching bone hand 5th metacarpal fracture growth plates epiphyses epiphysis Boxer’s fracture plain X-ray plain film Davidoff MD

Gunshot of a Young Child – Adult Issue!

The A-P examination of the hand of a young patient with unfused epiphyses reveal a gunshot injury to the hand resulting in a shattered third metacarpal of the right hand. The distal shaft of the bone is flared with a horizontal fracture through the growth plate and fractures along the long axis of the shaft. The soft tissues are swollen and some air is noted around the fracture site . This is a example of a high velocity penetration injury

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Painful to Look At

This is one of the most painful X-rays of my career and it is older than 30 years. The exact history eludes me but there has been obvious traumatic injury to the handwith multiple fractures (black arrows) a transverse skin incision that contains a broad band of air (white arrow), probable debridement of the severely injured metacarpal row, and extensive pinning and wiring of the thumb following surgical trauma. The combination of the large somatic sensory nociceptor supply to the hand, together with the extensive skin, bone,and tissue damage, is difficult to perceive the extent of the pain that this poor patient went through. The remarkable feature is the maintenace of blood supply to the hand.

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Historical Roentgen 1895

Roentgen with a historic image of his wife’s hand and wedding band. 54463 code historical

Fine and creative Movement

82554p.800 brain cerebral function creative small muscles of the hand fine movement thought thinking Davidoff MD

Father and Son

Pure Pleasure

Cape Cod Mass

CAPE0244b02i.8s Cape Cod Masachusetts father and son happiness impressionist Davidoff photography Davidoff art all rights reserved copyright 2009

Peruvian Child Pointing a Finger

06022pbb.8s Peru child children runny nose flu mountains hand finger Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

Complex Abilities

02102p03 girl healthy hands – complex function twist earing Davidoff photography

Working Hands

77159p.8s hands working hands carpenter 70 year old man Davidoff photography copyright 2008

Broken and Fixed

46806 bone hand metacarpal fx fracture dx boxer’s fracture position alignment post pinning X-ray plain film Davidoff MD Davidoff MD

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04265p.8s hands gloves wire tied hands Davidoff photography all rights reserved copyright 2009

French Horn in Blue

02474pi.8s music hand wind instrument French horn impressionist Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

Hands on the Cello

02475pbi.8s music hand cello bow fingers impressionist Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

Cobbler in Athens

02979pi.8s man cobbler hands shoes Greece impressionist Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

Handshake

06054pb01.8s Peru people Indian man hat men handshake links and connections hands Davidoff photography copyright

Saxophone in Italy

03002pi.8s street music musician saxophone impressionist Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

Portrait of a Portrait Painter in Spain

03046pi.8s man hand portrait artist impressionist Spain Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

In Thought In Blue

02597pi.8s woman time age old Italy people impressionist Davidoff art Davidoff photography copyright 2009 all rights reserved

A Couple in Converstaion on a Park Bench

Rome Italy

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