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Wk 7, Case 4, Hip MR - Review

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And, uh, before we take questions,

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they'll just slide right into the fourth case.

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Hopefully tie everything together with all these sort of measurements with, uh,

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femoral acetate, impingement, whatnot. So, rounding out with the other spectrum,

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uh, of FAI, which is, uh,

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we talked about the cam here we are gonna talk about the pincer type,

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but basically you have, what happens here is you have an over coverage. Uh,

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basically the, uh, femoral head is more normal size,

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but now the ace tablum is basically like a, uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, a crustaceans claw, if you will,

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is over covering and really surrounding the, the, uh, the, uh,

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spherical femoral head. And that can lead to an incongruent and,

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and joint problems and, and mobility there so that you can measure by,

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uh, uh, also the center edge angle. And again, uh,

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normal is gonna be about 20 to 25 degrees over coverage,

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depending on who you read is gonna be about, uh, 40 degrees. Um,

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so if you kind of drop a, uh, an angle, uh,

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from the center to,

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uh, of the femoral head out to the acetabular limbus

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region. So in this case, we kind of get about 60 degrees.

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So that's certainly over coverage and some other things you can see here,

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okay, obviously is the labral tear with associated paralabral cyst,

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Anter superiorly. Okay. Uh, some other angles that you could, uh,

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measure, uh, as provided in the literature. I believe it was by, uh,

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Toni and, uh, perhaps, uh, ley. Uh,

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but I would have to double check that. But you can measure the, uh, uh,

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retroversion or as version or asked to have their version angle. And that, uh,

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typically is gonna be, uh,

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about 12 to 20 degrees, if I remember correctly.

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But the way you measure that is you could drop down to the center, uh,

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angle, okay? And, um, or the center of the femoral head,

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and you basically, sorry, measure the, uh,

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the anterior and posterior rims of the acetabulum. Okay?

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And normally it's gonna be about 12 to 20 degrees, depending on who you read.

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There are other authors that have also come along and also given

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measurements are used, um, a similar concept, but they use,

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uh, uh, a measure, they take a measurement,

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typically higher up at about five millimeters or so below the

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acetabular roof. And forgive me, but I, I forget the normals for that.

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But again, as you can imagine, uh, you,

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you can look for this acetabular over coverage or this pincer type, uh,

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femoral acetate impingement. Now mind you,

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You can have a global, uh, uh, pincer type where you have,

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uh, over coverage, uh, uh,

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pretty much over the entire femoral head as I understand it.

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Or you can have focal areas, uh, of, uh, pincer type or,

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or over coverage as well. And radiographically, that's, um,

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you can pick that out or try to pick that out, uh, this diagnosis with the, uh,

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figure of eight sign and, and things like that. But, uh, happily, uh,

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share some of those, uh, you know, articles with y'all. Um, and, uh,

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with that, I will pause for a moment and take any cases, uh, or, uh,

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if anyone wants to discuss cases two through four, DDH,

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and the various types of, um, uh,

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hip impingement and obviously, sorry, these are also having to do with more,

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uh, intraarticular, also extra-articular forms, you know, such as subs,

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spine impingement, uh, you know, femoral acetabular impingement, uh, uh,

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is issue femoral impingement, more distally and medially, things like that.

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So there,

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there are other forms of impingement of the hip and causes the hip pain.

Report

Patient History

67-year-old female complaining of hip pain.

Findings

SKELETAL: No fracture or dislocations. No intramedullary lesions. No cortical breakthrough or periosteal reactions.

PELVIS: Labral-sacral junction, sacrum, sacroiliac joints, iliac blades, iliopectineal and ilioischial lines as well as the pubis are intact.

JOINTS: Coxa profunda.

Left hip acetabular over coverage with a lateral central edge angle (LCE)] of 55.5º (normal 25º-39º).

Normal head sphericity. Normal tapering at the head-neck junction. No dystrophic bumps or synovial pitting.

Moderate osteoarthrosis of the left hip with marginal spurs throughout the femoral head.

Diffuse chondral plate delamination with saucerized chondral flap tear (carpet lesion) anterosuperiorly.

Chondral delamination with mild subchondral stress osteoedema at the superior femoral head weight-bearing surface and anterosuperior acetabular column.

No avascular necrosis.

ACETABULUM/LABRUM: Focal, complex tear at the anterosuperior labrum without displacement.

Lobulated and internally septated adjacent anterosuperior paralabral cyst dissecting below the iliopsoas measuring 1cm x 2.3cm x 2.6cm (AP, transverse and CC diameters, respectively).

MUSCLES/TENDONS/LIGAMENTS: Nominal distention of the iliopsoas bursa.

Nominal insertional tendinosis of the gluteus medius on the lateral facet of the greater trochanter. No bursitis.

The rest of the abductor and adductor musculature is unremarkable.

OTHER/SOFT TISSUE: Normal neurovascular bundle.

Unremarkable pelvic basin contents.

Impressions

1. Left hip joint pincer-type femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) due to coxa profunda, and acetabular over coverage.

2. Findings result in moderate osteoarthritis of the left hip with marginal spurs throughout the femoral head. Diffuse chondral plate delamination with saucerized chondral flap tear anterosuperiorly.

3. Generalized chondral plate delamination with mild subchondral stress osteoedema at the superior femoral head weight-bearing surface and anterosuperior acetabular column.

4. Focal, complex anterosuperior labral tear associated with a 1cm x 2.3cm x 2.6cm anterosuperior paralabral cyst dissecting below the iliopsoas.

Case Discussion

Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Gitanjali Bajaj, MD

Assistant Professor

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Edward Smitaman, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

University of California San Diego

Brian Y. Chan, MD

Assistant Professor of Musculoskeletal Radiology

University of Utah

Todd D. Greenberg, MD

Radiologist

ProScan

Tags

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Hip & Thigh