Diagrams

Femoral head supply

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Related FRCS revision notes

Femoral Neck Fractures Dislocations of Hip Total Hip Replacement in Post Trauma Total Hip Replacement in Special Circumstances Avascular Necrosis of the Hip Clinical Examination of the Hip

Linked from

← Diagrams ← Avascular Necrosis of the Hip ← Dislocations of Hip ← Femoral Neck Fractures ← Femoral teardrop ← Muscles of hip ← Paediatric hip ← Total Hip Replacement in Post Trauma ← Total Hip Replacement in Special Circumstances ← Femoral shaft #← Hip dislocation ← Proximal and medial migration of femoral head through the medial acetabular wall, defined radiologically as migration medial to kohler’s line ← Short external rotators of the hip

Written/reviewed by Kishore Puthezhath

Professor of Orthopaedics and Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

FRCS (Tr & Orth) revision resource

Reviewed: September 2026

Core revision references: Miller's Review of Orthopaedics; Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics; Orthobullets. Current specialty guidelines are linked within individual notes where applicable.