INSUFFICIENCY FRACTURE OF THE FEMORAL-HEAD - MR-IMAGING IN 3 PATIENTS

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this report is to describe three patients in whom a presumptive diagnosis of insufficiency fracture of the femoral head was made on the basis of clinical and MR imaging findings. CONCL USION. Femoral head insufficiency fracture should be included in the d ifferential diagnosis of hip pain in the osteopenic elderly patient.