… Chronic hip pain is a common clinical problem whose cause is often elucidated by imaging.
The ACR Appropriateness Criteria for chronic hip pain define … and their appropriateness. The …

… Extremity Joint Pain-Suspected … of chronic hip pain, and the appropriate imaging workup
of patients with suspected osteonecrosis is included in the ACR Appropriateness Criteria® topic …

… ACR Appropriateness Criteria ® titled “Major Blunt Trauma” and will be made available on
the ACR … Variant 2: MRI pelvis and affected hip without IV contrast or CT pelvis and hips …

… Later, the focus shifted to hip injury and evaluation of acetabular fractures. Numerous studies
using MRI as the gold standard cite CT's improved sensitivity to fracture when compared …

… Radiography Hip In patients with chronic knee pain, referred pain from the hip must be
considered, … are unremarkable and there is clinical evidence or concern for hip pathology [14]. …

… Evaluation for suspected inflammatory arthritis as a cause for chronic extremity joint pain …
The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria are evidence-based guidelines …

… The pain is chronic (3 months or more in duration) and insidious in onset, with “… of the criteria
used, can include morning stiffness, pain that improves with exercise but not rest, pain that …

… is at risk for osteonecrosis develops hip pain, the initial examination should consist of an
anteroposterior pelvis and frog-leg lateral hip radiographs of the symptomatic hip or both hips. …

… The FDA recommends routine long-term follow-up of patients with MoM hip implants, typically
to occur every 1 to 2 years [44]. This includes appropriate radiographs. Serial radiographs …

… separately in the ACR Appropriateness Criteria® topic on “Inflammatory Back Pain: Known
or … For details on appropriate imaging workup of chronic joint pain related to infectious …