TY - JOUR
T1 - Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
T2 - A physeal lesion diagnosed by MRI, with radiographic and CT correlation
AU - Umans, Hilary
AU - Liebling, Melissa S.
AU - Moy, Linda
AU - Haramati, Nogah
AU - Macy, Neil J.
AU - Pritzker, Henry A.
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - Objective. To define and compare early lesions associated with slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and radiography. Design and patients. Thirteen patients with 15 symptomatic hips due to SCFE underwent radiography and MRI; CT was performed in 12 patients. SCFE was graded on radiographs, head/neck angles and qualitative changes were evaluated on CT: and morphologic/signal abnormalities were determined on MRI. Results. Physeal widening, apparent on T1-weighted MRI, was evident in every case of SCFE, including one presumed 'pre-slip.' T2-weighted images demonstrated synovitis and marrow edema but obscured physeal abnormalities. CT head/neck angles ranged from 4-57°for symptomatic to 0-14°for asymptomatic hips. Physeal and metaphyseal changes were variably identified on both radiographs and CT in all cases of SCFE, but not in the pre-slip. Conclusion. MRI clearly delineates physeal changes of both pre-slip and SCFE, and demonstrates very early changes at a time when radiographs and CT may appear normal.
AB - Objective. To define and compare early lesions associated with slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and radiography. Design and patients. Thirteen patients with 15 symptomatic hips due to SCFE underwent radiography and MRI; CT was performed in 12 patients. SCFE was graded on radiographs, head/neck angles and qualitative changes were evaluated on CT: and morphologic/signal abnormalities were determined on MRI. Results. Physeal widening, apparent on T1-weighted MRI, was evident in every case of SCFE, including one presumed 'pre-slip.' T2-weighted images demonstrated synovitis and marrow edema but obscured physeal abnormalities. CT head/neck angles ranged from 4-57°for symptomatic to 0-14°for asymptomatic hips. Physeal and metaphyseal changes were variably identified on both radiographs and CT in all cases of SCFE, but not in the pre-slip. Conclusion. MRI clearly delineates physeal changes of both pre-slip and SCFE, and demonstrates very early changes at a time when radiographs and CT may appear normal.
KW - Magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Physis
KW - Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
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U2 - 10.1007/s002560050353
DO - 10.1007/s002560050353
M3 - Article
C2 - 9554004
AN - SCOPUS:0031942408
SN - 0364-2348
VL - 27
SP - 139
EP - 144
JO - Skeletal Radiology
JF - Skeletal Radiology
IS - 3
ER -