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This chapter gives an in-depth description of hip ultrasound anatomy and discusses the ultrasound-guided intraarticular injection, individual hip muscle attachments, and bursa visualization injection techniques with the relevant anatomy, along with some pointers on clinical and diagnostic findings.

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Stogicza, A. (2020). Hip. In: Peng, P., Finlayson, R., Lee, S., Bhatia, A. (eds) Ultrasound for Interventional Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18371-4_22

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