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The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery British Volume
Vol. 75-B, Issue 2 | Pages 217 - 221
1 Mar 1993
Takatori Y Kokubo T Ninomiya S Nakamura S Morimoto S Kusaba I

We studied the prognostic value of MRI in 32 radiographically normal, asymptomatic hips in 25 patients at risk of osteonecrosis from glucocorticoids or alcoholism. The early findings were band-like hypointense zones on spin-echo images. No operations were performed. Life-table survival curves showed that femoral heads in which the hypointense zone traversed the middle portion of the head were most at risk of subsequent segmental collapse.