title: Insufficiency fracture of the femoral head: MR imaging in three patients.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Femoral head insufficiency fracture should be included in the differential diagnosis of hip pain in the osteopenic elderly patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York University Medical Center 10016, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rafii
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mitnick
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klug
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Firooznia
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005270:Femur Head / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies