If your X-ray doesn't show a fracture but you still have hip pain, your doctor might order an MRI or bone scan to look for a hairline fracture.
When a middle-aged or elderly patient presents with acute hip pain and fracture is suspected, clinical guidelines recommend first ordering a hip ...
Plain radiography should be the initial diagnostic test in patients with suspected hip fracture. C. 5. Hip fracture surgery should be performed 24 to ...
The purpose of this project is to create an institutional registry of elderly patients with hip fracture in order to obtain data that reveal the impact of this disease in ...
Radiograph of a patient's right hip showing fracture of the femur neck. Case. A 91 -year-old man with Alzheimer's dementia presents with severe right hip pain after ...
intact patients and 76% of dementia patients did not receive a standing order for an ...
... documented, injuries to the pelvis, hip, and thigh get little attention because of their
In order to establish the prevalence of osteomalacia in elderly patients with hip fracture, trans-iliac biopsies were obtained from 49 patients, aged 67-92 years, ...
It is increasingly common to care for older hip fracture patients in
In order to estimate the long-term mortality with reference to hip fracture type, we followed 499 patients older than 60 years who had been treated surgically for a ...