CT Hip - Video Lesson

Hey everybody, welcome back. This lesson is about the hip as seen in CT imaging. We'll start in the coronal plane. This is a coronal reformation of the right hip. The hip joint is a synovial joint formed by the articulation between the acetabulum of the pelvis and the head of the femur. The acetabulum is this deep cavity within the pelvis that receives the head of the femur. It's formed by the fusion of all three pelvic bones, the ileum, the ischium, and the pubis. At this slice position, we can see the ileum, the large flat bone that forms the upper half of the hips and the upper half of the acetabulum. We can also see the pubis, one of the bones forming the lower half of the hips and the lower half of the acetabulum. The ischium is not visible at this slice position. We'll move posteriorly through the hip. We can again see this deep cavity called the acetabulum. We can see two of the hip bones that form the acetabulum, the ilium