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Imaging The Hip
MUSCULOSKELETAL IMAGING
Summary
• Age is an important determinant in the aetiology of hip disorders.
• MRI is the key imaging technique in a variety of conditions involving the bone,
including occult fracture, stress fracture, avascular necrosis and transient
osteoporosis.
• Synovial diseases are well characterized on MRI, including pigmented villonodular
synovitis, synovial osteochondromatosis and inflammatory arthropathies.
• MR arthrography allows assessment of intra-articular pathology, including tears of
the acetabular labrum.
• CT provides detailed information on bone morphology and may provide doi: 10.1259/img.20120023
a definitive diagnosis of osteoid osteoma.
• Ultrasound may be used to evaluate bursitis, joint effusions and snapping hips, as © 2014 The British Institute of
well as guiding injections. Radiology
Cite this article as: Daghir A, Teh J. Imaging the hip. Imaging 2014;23:20120023.
Abstract. In this article, we review the clinical presentation used to guide needle aspiration and injection. The injection
and imaging appearances of a wide spectrum of disorders of the of a local anaesthetic into the hip joint under ultrasound or
hip. The role of different imaging modalities is highlighted for fluoroscopic guidance may allow confirmation of the hip
each condition. as the source of symptoms.1,2
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Table 1. The typical age of presentation of various hip high-signal bone marrow oedema and also allow assess-
disorders ment of soft-tissue injury (Figure 2a). Radiographs may
Age Condition initially appear normal and later show periosteal thicken-
ing and a sclerotic fracture line (Figure 2b). Bone scintig-
Above the fifth Occult fracture raphy provides another means of diagnosis although the
decade Osteoarthritis sensitivity and specificity is lower than with MRI.8,13
Trochanteric bursitis and gluteus
medius enthesopathy
Third to fifth Avascular necrosis Occult hip fractures
decade Transient bone marrow oedema Radiographs are sufficient for the diagnosis of the vast
Synovial proliferative disorders
majority of hip fractures. However, when radiographs
Second to fourth Femoroacetabular impingement
decade Snapping hip
are negative or equivocal and there remains a high clin-
Osteoid osteoma ical suspicion for an occult hip fracture, a number of
imaging options are available. In our institution, MRI is
the investigation of choice employing coronal and axial
Conditions affecting the bone T1 and STIR sequences10,12 (Figure 3). CT is an alternative
imaging technique providing isotropic multiplanar
Stress fractures of the hip reformats although MRI is reported to be more sensitive
and also allows delineation of soft-tissue injury.14 Scin-
A stress fracture occurs following repeated loading of tigraphy usually allows detection of fractures 24 h fol-
a bone, which cannot accommodate itself to the forces lowing injury; however, in the elderly, the sensitivity is
applied to it.5 Two kinds of stress fractures are described: further improved after a few days.13
fatigue fractures occur in normal bones undergoing ex-
cessive loading, and insufficiency fractures arise in Avascular necrosis
pathologically weak bone undergoing normal loading.5,6
The femoral neck is a common site of fatigue fracture AVN, also called osteonecrosis, is common in the
typically occurring in military recruits and athletes. An- femoral head and has a number of causes, the commonest
terior hip and groin pain is exacerbated by activity and being chronic steroid use, chronic excessive alcohol use
improves with rest. The insidious onset of symptoms and trauma. With interruption of the blood supply, my-
may lead to diagnostic delay and may result in the frac- eloid cell death follows in 6–12 h. After 48 h, osteocyte
ture becoming displaced.7 death occurs, and lipocytes die within 2–6 days.15 This is
MRI is an excellent technique for identification and followed by an inflammatory response increasing vas-
characterization of radiographically occult fractures cularity, leading to the formation of granulation tissue
due to acute or chronic trauma.8–12 In our practice, we and fibrosis. Collapse of the subchondral bone predis-
perform both T1 and short tau inversion–recovery (STIR) poses to OA. The condition is bilateral in up to 40% of
coronal and axial sequences.10 The T1 images are helpful cases, so it is important to image both hips together.
for demonstrating the low-signal fracture line, which
usually appears perpendicular to the cortex owing to the Early detection of avascular necrosis
causative compressive forces. The STIR images reveal
Early detection of AVN is important because therapy
such as core decompression may be implemented sooner.
Radiographs are of limited use early on, as the typical
findings on radiographs of subchondral lucency and
collapse occur late in the disease process (Figure 4a). The
investigation of choice is MRI, which is more sensitive
Figure 1. Normal anatomy on MR arthrogram. Coronal T1 fat- Figure 2. Stress fracture of the femoral neck. (a) Coronal short
saturated image shows intra-articular gadolinium contrast as tau inversion–recovery image demonstrating high signal in the
high signal. The superior labrum (arrow) and transverse femoral neck indicating bone marrow oedema. A low-signal
ligament (arrowhead) are clearly demonstrated. The ligamen- fracture line is shown perpendicular to the bone cortex
tum teres can be seen attaching to the fovea (open arrow). (arrow). (b) A radiograph taken on the same day shows very
Hyaline cartilage appears as intermediate signal. subtle linear sclerosis indicating the fracture line (arrow).
Figure 4. Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head. (a) Radiograph demonstrates subchondral collapse (arrow), a late feature
of AVN. (b, c) In a different patient: (b) coronal T1 image demonstrating a subchondral region of low signal (arrow); (c) short tau
inversion–recovery sagittal oblique image demonstrating the classical “double line” sign (arrow) of AVN. The high-signal line
represents hypervascular tissue on the necrotic side adjacent to the low-signal fibrotic/sclerotic line on the healthy side.
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Osteoid osteoma
Osteoid osteomas are benign neoplasms that usually
involve the long bones, particularly the proximal femur Figure 5. Transient osteoporosis of the left hip in a middle-
and tibial shaft. The typical presentation is of localized aged male. Coronal short tau inversion–recovery image dem-
bone pain that is worse at night and relieved by anti- onstrates high signal (arrow) indicating bone marrow oedema
inflammatory drugs. The tumour consists of a small ni- in the femoral head and neck. The subchondral region is
dus of osteoid tissue (usually ,1 cm) that demonstrates involved, which is not always the case in this condition.
Cam impingement
Femoroacetabular impingement
Cam-type deformity, typically occurring in athletic
Femoroacetabular impingement is a recently described males, describes loss of the normal sphericity of the fem-
cause of hip pain resulting from morphological abnor- oral head owing to the presence of an osseous bump at the
malities of the hip. Two types are described, cam and head/neck junction, which is usually found antero-
pincer, although most patients have a combination of laterally49 (Figure 8). It is so-called because of the re-
both types.45 Cam- and pincer-type deformities are not semblance to a camshaft in motor engines. Although a cam
thought to be painful by themselves. Rather, they pre- deformity is often idiopathic, similar morphology may
dispose to damage to the acetabular labrum and cartilage, arise secondarily as a result of conditions including
which is painful. Identifying these morphological abnor- trauma, chronic slipped upper femoral epiphysis, previous
malities has important implications as surgical correction osteotomy and Perthes’ disease. Repeated contact between
may prevent the onset of OA.46,47 Arthroscopic manage- the osseous bump and the labrum causes labral tearing
ment involving recontouring of the cam and/or pincer and detachment. This process leads to cartilage damage
deformity has been reported to have favourable early and OA. A triad of findings on MRA has been described
outcomes in most patients although the long-term benefit consisting of a femoral head/neck osseous bump, antero-
is not known.48 Accurate assessment of the extent of superior cartilage abnormality and anterosuperior labral
abnormality50 (Figure 9). The degree of loss of sphericity
may be quantified using the a angle (Figure 10). This angle
can be measured on an axial oblique MR image or on
a cross-table lateral radiograph of the hip. An a angle .50°
may be considered abnormal.51
Figure 6. Osteoid osteoma. Axial CT demonstrates the lucent Figure 8. Cam deformity. Radiograph in a 46-year-old male
nidus (arrow) in a typical location in the femoral neck. Note shows bilateral cam deformities (osseous bumps) of the
the surrounding osteoblastic response resulting in sclerosis. anterolateral femoral head/neck junctions (arrows).
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Ischiofemoral impingement
Ischiofemoral impingement is a newly recognized con-
dition, which remains the subject of debate. The condition
is found predominantly in females of middle age.58
Patients typically present with posterior hip pain that
may radiate towards the lower extremity.59 The space be-
tween the ischial tuberosity and lesser trochanter is typi-
cally much narrower in patients with this condition than in
Figure 13. Sagittal ultrasound image shows a moderate hip Figure 15. Proliferative synovial osteochondromatosis. An
joint effusion. Note anechoic fluid (arrow) and convexity of axial short tau inversion–recovery image demonstrates high
the overlying capsule and iliopsoas tendon. signal synovial hypertrophy (arrows) and faint low signal
bodies indicating mineralization (arrowhead).
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Synovial osteochondromatosis
Primary synovial osteochondromatosis (SOC) is a be-
nign monoarticular condition of uncertain aetiology. It
presents with pain, swelling and movement restriction
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