Administrators, Editors, Administrators
3,484
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
→Evaluation: linked
Use a bone window and look for fracture lines through the bone cortex. Rarely, compression fractures are seen as a radiodense line:
<gallery>
File:X-ray of subtle compressive hip fracture, labeled.jpg|X-ray showing a suspected compressive subcapital [[hip fracture ]] as a radiodense line
File:CT of subtle compressive hip fracture.jpg|CT scan shows the same, atypical for a fracture since the cortex is coherent
File:T1 TSE MRI of hip fracture.jpg|T1-weighted, turbo spin echo, [[MRI]] confirms a fracture, as the surrounding bone marrow has low signal from edema.
