MRI Web Clinic - September 2010
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis

by Ingrid Kjellin, M.D.

Clinical History: A 10 year-old girl presents with a limp and pain in the right thigh and knee after a fall onto the right knee five months ago. MR imaging of the right knee was normal. MRI of the right hip was obtained and coronal T1 (A), coronal fat-suppressed T2 (B), sagittal fat-suppressed proton density (C) and axial fat-suppressed T2 (D) weighted images are provided. What are the findings? What is your diagnosis?



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D

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