Hip pain in renal transplant recipients: Symptomatic gluteus minimus and gluteus medius tendon abnormality as an alternative MRI diagnosis to avascular necrosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 515-519

  Demant, Andre W ^a   Kocovic, Leonardo ^a   Henschkowski, Jana ^a   Siebenrock, Klaus A ^a   Ferrari, Paolo ^b   Steinbach, Lynne S ^c   Anderson, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avascular necrosis; Glucocorticoid treatment; Hip; Kidney disease; MRI; Musculoskeletal imaging; Renal transplantation; Tendons

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTHESOPATHY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HIP DISEASE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; OSTEONECROSIS; TENDONS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 33846512225     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.1097     Document Type: Article

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