title: Role of MRI in hip fractures, including stress fractures, occult fractures, avulsion fractures.
abstract: MR imaging plays a vital role in the diagnosis and management of hip fractures in all age groups, in a large spectrum of patient groups spanning the elderly and sporting population. It allows a confident exclusion of fracture, differentiation of bony from soft tissue injury and an early confident detection of fractures. There is a spectrum of MR findings which in part is dictated by the type and cause of the fracture which the radiologist needs to be familiar with. Judicious but prompt utilisation of MR in patients with suspected hip fractures has a positive therapeutic impact with healthcare cost benefits as well as social care benefits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen, Oswestry Shropshire SY10 7AG, UK.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Nachtrab
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Cassar-Pullicino
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lalam
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tins
authors.forename: P N M
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Tyrrell
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D005596:Fractures, Closed / Q000473:pathology*; D015775:Fractures, Stress / Q000473:pathology*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000473:pathology*; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D017695:Soft Tissue Injuries / Q000473:pathology*