**1. Introduction**

Since wrist arthroscopies for diagnostical purposes were first reported and described in 1979, it has become an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in the hands of trained specialists during the last decades. Nowadays it is widely used in the treatment of acute wrist injuries as well as different chronic conditions and degenerative diseases. Arthroscopy has assumed an important place in wrist surgery. The wide list of indications for wrist arthroscopy is continuously growing and requires specific operative skills and specialized training before entering the operating room for real surgery. At this point it's necessary to highlight the huge investment of International Wrist Arthroscopy Society (IWAS) and Asia Pacific Wrist Association (APWA) in training programs, courses and workshops all around the world. Today arthroscopic methods are proposed in the treatment of almost all soft tissue and osseous problems of the wrist. They include synovitis, fibrosis, stiffness, triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) problems, ganglion cysts, scapholunate- (SLIL) and lunotriquetral ligament (LTIL) tears, intra-articular distal radius fracture (DRF) and nonunion treatment, arthroscopic arthrolysis, treatment of scaphoid fractures and nonunions, arthroscopic treatment of Kienböck's disease, arthroscopically assisted partial wrist fusions, etc. We can be grateful to the industry, that they have been able to listen to our wishes and create the tools needed for our surgeries. Since authors have been limited in the size of the manuscript as well as many well illustrated books on this topic have already been published, we will address only the most frequent problems of wrist arthroscopy in our practice.
