RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bilateral hip osteonecrosis: influence of hip size on outcome
JF Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
JO Ann Rheum Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism
SP 817
OP 821
DO 10.1136/ard.59.10.817
VO 59
IS 10
A1 Ph Hernigou
A1 J C Lambotte
YR 2000
UL http://ard.bmj.com/content/59/10/817.abstract
AB OBJECTIVE To measure the volume of osteonecrosis in 30 patients with disease in both hips (one side with collapse and the other without at Ficat stage I).METHOD The volume of the osteonecrosis was measured by magnetic resonance imaging.RESULTS The progression to collapse was influenced by the size of the lesion in each patient. The first collapsed hip was that with the largest volume of osteonecrosis.CONCLUSION The volume of the osteonecrotic lesion on the second hip (stage I without collapse) is a good predictor of the time to collapse of this second hip.