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Ultrasound has become a routine investigation in the investigation of the painful hip in children. It has been recommended that all effusions demonstrated by sonography be drained. Based on the experience of 800 hip aspirations, the authors describe an approach to the demonstration and aspiration of hip effusions with some of the pitfalls that result in false positive and false negative diagnoses.

Original publication

DOI

10.1259/0007-1285-68-807-306

Type

Journal article

Journal

British Journal of Radiology

Publication Date

01/01/1995

Volume

68

Pages

306 - 310