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Narration
So ultrasound can be helpful in any procedure where you are trying to access fluid, but an important principle is that before you put a needle in something, you want to make sure there actually is a fluid collection that you can access. This is an example of a patient who was thought to have a joint effusion at the metacarpophalengeal joint of the hand-it was swollen and tender, but when you look with ultrasound, if you look carefully you can see