In some older people, a fall-related fracture may involve both the femur and the hip. A broken thigh bone usually requires surgery to repair it.

When hip impingement causes symptoms, it may be referred to as hip impingement syndrome. The main symptoms are "pain" in the groin, especially when walking or flexing the hip, and decreased range ...

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.

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 ...

People who sustain the most common type of hip fracture, known as a femoral neck fracture, are at increased risk of complications. A special type of MRI developed at Hospital for Special Surgery ...

Cam-type deformities linked to MRI detected hip damage in asymptomatic young men Date: September 8, 2011 Source: Wiley-Blackwell Summary: Hip impingement may be a risk factor of osteoarthritis of ...

Gorilla saved by hip operation A French surgeon may have entered the record books by saving a 70-kilo female gorilla that sustained a crippling injury after falling from a tree in a safari park.

Gilbert Christian guard Cameron Satterwhite, who committed during his junior basketball season to Colorado, said Monday afternoon that he is awaiting the MRI results of his injured knee.

In the future, contrast MRI scans may be able to show this ballotable fragment of articular cartilage and obviate the need for direct visualization of the femoral head.

A mum endured nine years of pain before being diagnosed with a rare sarcoma bone cancer. Sue Taylor, 39, first started experiencing hip pain nine years ago and was given an MRI and paracetamol to ...