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Pathological Changes of LCF

 

Version: 20240419

RESULT OF PATHOLOGICAL CHANGE OF LCF

1. Absence of detectable changes

2. Elongation

3. Shortening

4. Thinning (hypotrophy)

5. Thickening (hypertrophy)

6. Disappearance

7. Impingement (within the joint space)

8. Compression (in the fossa of the acetabulum)

9. Marginal defect

10. Distally detached fragment

11. Proximally detached fragment

12. Two-fragments injury (in the midsection)

13. Avulsion-fracture of the distal end

14. Avulsion-fracture of the proximal end

15. Subsynovial avulsion of the distal end

16. Subsynovial avulsion of the proximal end

17. Synovial sheath

18. Partial distal end detachment

19. Partial proximal end detachment

20. Partial subsynovial injury

21. Complete subsynovial injury

22. Combination of pathological changes

 

PATHOMORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES OF LCF

1. Edema

2. Dystrophic change in the stroma

3. Total dystrophic change

4. Metaplasia

5. Sclerosis

6. Hyalinosis

7. Fibrosis

8. Necrobiosis

9. Necrosis

10. Atrophy

11. Disappearance of stroma

12. Disappearance of the entire ligament

13. Ossification

14. Incrustation

 

NECROSIS OF LCF

1. Infectious

2. Avascular

3. Compression-induced

 

METAPLASIA OF LCF

1. Loose connective tissue

2. Dense unformed connective tissue

3. Adipose tissue

4. Cartilaginous (chondroid) tissue

5. Osseous tissue

6. Synovial

 

Keywords:

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligament of head of femur, round ligament, ligamentum teres, classification, pathology, changes, necrosis, metaplasia 

                                                                     

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