Yawei Dong, Yan Yan, Jun Zhou, Kaiqiang Tang, Xiaohan Wang, Rui Quan, Jiaming Lin, Yan Jia, Zelu Zheng, Baohong Mi, Weiheng Chen
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Abstract
Background: Current clinical studies on femoral head necrotic lesions primarily focus on the medial and lateral regions, while detailed MRI-based methods to evaluate the relationship between anterior or posterior necrosis and collapse remain lacking.
Objective: By defining the anterior and posterior positions of the femoral head in MRI, a method was proposed for rapid clinical prognosis assessment of femoral head necrosis based on necrotic location.
Metohd: A retrospective analysis was conducted on TSE sequence T1W1 coronal plane images from 200 cases of femoral head necrosis. The frequency of necrotic lesions appearing on each MRI layer was statistically analyzed to construct a high-frequency necrotic layer set. Among these cases, 100 hips were randomly selected, and the relationship between femoral head collapse at one-year follow-up and different high-frequency necrotic layer sets was analyzed to identify the key necrotic layer set. Based on this, the anterior and posterior regions of the femoral head were defined on MRI. The remaining 100 hips were used as a validation set to assess the impact of anterior or posterior necrosis of the femoral head, as defined by this method, on collapse.
Results: In this study, a total of eight high-frequency necrotic lesion layer sets (S1-S8) were constructed based on MRI data. Among them, S3 (L1 + L2 + L0 + L3) showed the strongest correlation with femoral head collapse, with an AUC of 0.662. Therefore, S3 was defined as the anterior side of the femoral head. Analysis of the validation set revealed that, using this method, the probability of femoral head collapse was 11.4 times higher when necrotic lesions appeared on the anterior side compared to the absence of necrosis on the anterior side.
Conclusion: In MRI, the anterior side of the femoral head corresponds to the S3 region, where necrosis increases the risk of collapse by 11.4 times.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is an open access journal that encompasses all aspects of clinical and basic research studies related to musculoskeletal issues.
Orthopaedic research is conducted at clinical and basic science levels. With the advancement of new technologies and the increasing expectation and demand from doctors and patients, we are witnessing an enormous growth in clinical orthopaedic research, particularly in the fields of traumatology, spinal surgery, joint replacement, sports medicine, musculoskeletal tumour management, hand microsurgery, foot and ankle surgery, paediatric orthopaedic, and orthopaedic rehabilitation. The involvement of basic science ranges from molecular, cellular, structural and functional perspectives to tissue engineering, gait analysis, automation and robotic surgery. Implant and biomaterial designs are new disciplines that complement clinical applications.
JOSR encourages the publication of multidisciplinary research with collaboration amongst clinicians and scientists from different disciplines, which will be the trend in the coming decades.