Deformities of the Hip: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Congenital malformations, deformities, and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99).

  • Chondrodysplasia (cartilage malformations), unspecified.
  • Gaucher disease – genetic disease with autosomal recessive inheritance; lipid storage disease due to the defect of the enzyme beta-glucocerebrosidase, leading to storage of cerebrosides mainly in the spleen and medullary bones.

Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).

  • Bursitis pectinea – bursitis of the hip joint (between the iliopsoas muscle and the hip joint capsule).
  • Coxitis fogax (hip flare) – short-term irritable condition of the hip joint, which can occur in infectious diseases.
  • Purulent coxitis (inflammation of the hip joint).
  • Epiphysiolysis capitis femoris – bone disease in adolescents characterized by the separation of the epiphysis (growth area of the bone) from the rest of the femur.
  • Acquired dislocation of the hip joint
  • Femoral head necrosis (femoral head necrosis) – localized cell death in the femoral head region; may be traumatic or inflammatory in nature
  • Paget’s disease (ostitis deformans) – focal (rarely generalized) bone disease associated with pathological (pathological) increased bone remodeling. Bone resorption is usually subcortical, whereas subsequent bone accretion occurs at the periosteum (bone skin). Affected are the Becke, the femur (thigh), the spine and the cranial bones.
  • Perthes diseasefemoral head necrosis, which occurs in childhood childhood disease. It is caused by ischemia (impaired blood flow) and necrosis (death) of bone tissue in the femoral head. Symptoms: Gonalgia (knee pain), go-slow limp and hip joint rotation restrictions.
  • Osteomalacia (bone softening).
  • Osteoporosis (bone loss)
  • Osteomyelitis (bone marrow inflammation)
  • Psoas pain – movement-dependent pain in the region of the iliopsoas muscle (leg flexor).
  • Rheumatoid coxitis (inflammation of the hip joint).

Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)