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. 2013 Mar 2;37(5):783–788. doi: 10.1007/s00264-013-1844-2

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Ultrasound of the hip joint in 20° internal rotation. The anterior femoral distance is measured as the distance between the two lines. The first line (1) is placed as a tangent to the visible surface of the femoral neck; the second line (2) is drawn parallel to the first along the greatest perpendicular depth of epiphyseal overgrowth at the anterior femoral head-neck junction