High clinical utility of computed tomography compared to radiography in elderly patients with occult hip fracture after low-energy trauma.

Computed tomography has a high clinical utility as it can detect nearly all clinically suspect but radiographically negative cervical hip fractures as well as most trochanteric fractures and avulsions. A negative CT is near-perfect in ruling out a hip fracture requiring surgery. Dunker D, Collin D, Göthlin JH, Geijer M. Emerg Radiol. 2011 Dec 16. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22173818