Your hip is the joint where your thigh bone meets your pelvis. ... An MRI can show fraying or tears of the cartilage, including that which runs along the rim of the socket (labrum).

The top of your femur and part of your pelvic bone meet to form your hip. A broken hip is usually a fracture in the upper portion of your femur, or thigh bone. A joint is a point where two or more ...

MRI reveals that greater trochanteric fractures of the hip that are diagnosed as isolated on X-ray are frequently underestimated and are neither isolated nor minor, say a pair of researchers from ...

The proximal femoral anatomy is changed due to previous hip surgery for fixation of an intertrochanteric hip fracture, proximal femoral osteotomy, or a fibular allograft for avascular necrosis.

Each year, more than 340,000 people suffer a broken hip in the United States. The femoral neck, the area just below the ball of the hip's ball-and-socket joint, is the most common site of fracture ...

Association Between Cam-Type Deformities and MRI Detected Structural Damage of the Hip: A Cross-Sectional Study in Young Males. Arthritis & Rheumatism , September 8, 2011 DOI: 10.1002/art.30589 ...

MRI scans may help identify inflammation caused due to metal-on-metal hip implants, a new study suggests. The study, which appears in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery ...