Occult femoral neck fracture

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 08 Apr 2017 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ Case Reports, volume 2,017, pages bcr-2,017 (eissn: 1757-790X,

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Authors: Naoki, Yoshida; Yohei, Komaru; Yoshihiko, Tsuchida;

doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-219868

pmid: 28391247

pmc: PMC5534680

Occult femoral neck fracture

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Abstract

A 77-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with persistent pain that developed in the right hip after a fall from a standing height. A radiograph and CT of the right hip revealed no evidence of fracture (figure 1A,B), but MRI revealed oedema of the right femoral neck (T1-weighted coronal imaging; figure 1C). She was treated …

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Shonan Kamakura General Hospital
Japan

Keywords

Radiography, Femur Neck, Humans, Female, Fractures, Closed, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Aged, Femoral Neck Fractures

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