Descripción y tratamiento artroscópico del choque femoroacetabular. Cálculo de la resección

Background

Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is the main cause of young adult hip ostheoarthritis. Deformity calculation is the key step to make a correct diagnosis and to assess an efficient surgical technique.

Objective

Evaluation of different resection calculation methods in femoroacetabular impingement surgery, with diferentation of pre, intra and postoperative.

Methods

We made a research on Pubmed of originals or revisions about resection calculation. We excluded papers of author's opinion and clinical cases.

Data recopilation and analysis

The four authors made an independent evaluation. Papers where divided between pre, intra and postoperative with one author in each group. The fourth author was responsible of selection and recopilation of the papers.

Main results

101 papers where analized related with femoroacetaublar impingement, being 10 revision papers and 6 clinical studies.

Authors conclusions

Resection calculation is a key step for the exit of arthroscopic femoroacetabular osteoplasty as a method of treatment of femoroacetabualr impingment. It needs an accurate preperative planification, correct intraoperative valoration, and follow up results correlates with clinical results.