Case Report
Spontaneous Avascular Necrosis of Bilateral Femoral Heads–Case Report
BB Sharma1*, Shashi Sharma2, Sandeep Sharma3, Priya Ramchandran3 and Shweta Sharma4
1Department of Radiodiagnosis, SGT Medical College, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
2Department of Pediatrics, SGT Medical College, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
3Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
4Department of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, SGT Medical College, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- *Corresponding Author:
- BB Sharma
Professor and HOD
Department of Radiodiagnosis
SGT Medical College,
Gurgaon (Haryana), India
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Received date: July 31, 2016; Accepted date: September 16, 2016; Published date: September 23, 2016
Citation: Sharma BB, Sharma S, Sharma S, Ramchandran P, Sharma S (2016) Spontaneous Avascular Necrosis of Bilateral Femoral Heads– Case Report. J Med Diagn Meth 5:226. doi:10.4172/2168-9784.1000226
Copyright: © 2016 Sharma BB, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Avascular necrosis of femur as the name implies is directly related to the compromising state of the blood supply and their further pathological changes at that site. This results in major musculoskeletal disability. This may be traumatic or non-traumatic as the crux of the underlying problem is ischemia because of disruption of the vascular nourishment. This eventually leads to the death of marrow and osteocytes which leads to osteonecrosis. This shows in imaging in the form of ischemia or bone collapse and the diagnosis is made with the help of imaging armamentarium. The age of presentation and the history are very important to know before the diagnosis is made. Plain radiography, Computerized Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) play a pivot role in clinching the diagnosis. We present 28-years old male who reported with pain in both hip joints with painful and restricted movements. He was diagnosed as bilateral avascular necrosis of hips on the basis of the radiological findings.
