Avascular necrosis of the femoral head in an adult is known as?

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Disruption of the blood supply to the femoral head causes bone death, which in adults is termed osteonecrosis of the femoral head. This name specifies both the process (bone death due to lack of blood flow) and the location (the femoral head). Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is the pediatric version of this process, occurring in children and presenting differently. Freiberg infarction refers to avascular necrosis of a metatarsal head, not the hip. Chandler's disease is not the name used for avascular necrosis of the femoral head. So the correct term for the adult hip condition is osteonecrosis of the femoral head.