M Rafii1, H Mitnick, J Klug, H Firooznia. 1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York University Medical Center 10016, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this report is to describe three patients in whom a presumptive diagnosis of insufficiency fracture of the femoral head was made on the basis of clinical and MR imaging findings. CONCLUSION: Femoral head insufficiency fracture should be included in the differential diagnosis of hip pain in the osteopenic elderly patient.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this report is to describe three patients in whom a presumptive diagnosis of insufficiency fracture of the femoral head was made on the basis of clinical and MR imaging findings. CONCLUSION:Femoral head insufficiency fracture should be included in the differential diagnosis of hip pain in the osteopenic elderly patient.