Özet:

Osteoarthritis is a main reason of pain in elderly, the joint space width being the most used criteria in the assessment of the hip joint articular cartilage thickness. The aim of our study was to measure a set of parameters on clinically asymptomatic patients with normal radiographic aspect of hips and to compare the results with the joint space width. The recorded parameters were: gender, age, center-edge angle of Wiberg, neck-shaft angle and acetabular depth. The Wiberg angle was inversely associated with the joint space width and the mean acetabular depth was 12.5 mm, positively associated with the superomedial joint space width. A head-neck ratio of 1.35 and neck-shaft angle were not correlated with the joint space width values. The Wiberg angle can be considered a radiological parameter inversely related to the joint space width of the hip joints. We found no association between aging and hip joint space narrowing.

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