Peters & Erickson prospectively evaluated surgical hip dislocation via trochanteric flip osteotomy and femoral head-neck débridement for FAI in 30 hips, asking whether this approach safely improves function and what factors predict failure at early follow-up.
When evaluating a young patient for FAI surgery, recognize that MR arthrography frequently underestimates — or entirely misses.
Full-thickness acetabular cartilage delamination: counsel patients that intraoperative findings may reveal grade-IV chondral damage that substantially worsens prognosis, and that functional improvement after débridement is reliable only when articular cartilage is largely intact (Outerbridge grade 0–II).
Peters & Erickson prospectively evaluated surgical hip dislocation via trochanteric flip osteotomy and femoral head-neck débridement for FAI in 30 hips, asking whether this approach safely improves function and what factors predict failure at early follow-up.
When evaluating a young patient for FAI surgery, recognize that MR arthrography frequently underestimates — or entirely misses.
Full-thickness acetabular cartilage delamination: counsel patients that intraoperative findings may reveal grade-IV chondral damage that substantially worsens prognosis, and that functional improvement after débridement is reliable only when articular cartilage is largely intact (Outerbridge grade 0–II).