Teenager with left hip pain

Musculoskeletal
Radiograph and CT of slipped capital femoral epiphysis
AP radiograph of the pelvis shows a fracture through the left physeal growth plate causing the femoral epiphysis to sublux off of the femoral metaphysis. This is more clearly seen on the coronal 2D reconstruction CT of the pelvis.

The diagnosis was slipped capital femoral epiphysis.

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