Necrosis of femoral head, osteonecrosis and hardware failure

CASE

CT shows that the two screws that formally held femur and its head in place after a mediocervical fracture (fracture of femoral neck) are broken, the head is shrunk and sclerotic indicating avascular osteonecrosis due to interruption of vascular supply following the fracture.

Tags:  Extremity  Bone  Other
Radiology image - Necrosis of femoral head, osteonecrosis and hardware failure: Extremity, Bone, Other: X-ray - Plain radiograph

Necrosis of femoral head, osteonecrosis and hardware failure


Necrosis of femoral head, osteonecrosis and hardware failure: X-ray - Plain radiograph
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