Infective Arthritis of Hip: Role of Sonography Sumeet Bhargava, Satish K. Bhargava

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Infective Arthritis is commonly encountered perplexing problem faced by the Radiologist in a child presented with limping, pain, refusal to bear weight with or without flexion deformity. Among the various armamentarium of techniques avaible to the Radiologist, Ultrasound bieng the noninvasive,nonionizing modality is the Imaging modality of the choice, hence should be used as first line of investigation as it not only determine the presence and nature of the fluid but als to determine whether the disease in intrinsic or extrinsics.