Template:Subtle compressive hip fracture - description

Medical imaging of a 79 year old woman who had a fall 3 weeks previously.

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  Projectional radiography ("X-ray") shows a subtle subcapital radiodense line
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  Labeled
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  CT scan shows the same. The cortex is coherent, which is atypical of a fracture
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  T1-weighted, turbo spin echo, MRI confirms a fracture, as the surrounding bone marrow has low signal from edema.
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  Hansson pins were used for fixation