Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.
We employed nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of fourteen children with Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease, and found that it accurately identified infarction of the femoral head and, with appropriate techniques, could produce an arthrogram-like image of the hip without the use of ionizing radiation or injection of a contrast agent. Partial saturation-recovery and inversion-recovery pulse sequences with two-dimensional Fourier transformation produced the best results. Nuclear magnetic resonance scanning provides a noninvasive method for the study of the contours of the hip joint, and may give clearer insight into the pathophysiology of infarction and revascularization.
D002358:Cartilage, Articular / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005271:Femur Head Necrosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007873:Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male