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Ultrasound of the hip joint in 20° internal rotation, showing the circle constructed on the visible sector of the femoral head. The alpha angle is the angle between a line parallel to the visible surface of the femoral neck (dotted line) through the centre of the circle and a line from the centre of this circle to the point where the anterior femoral head-neck junction exits the circle
