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SUBMITTER: Matsuda DK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3691776 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matsuda Dean K DK Hanami Dylan D
Arthroscopy techniques 20130204 1
Since the classic description of cam femoroacetabular impingement occurring in the anterolateral quadrant of the proximal femur, there has been growing evidence of cam impingement extending outside of this region. Although anteromedial cam decompression may be performed, posterior cam decompression is at higher theoretic risk of vascular embarrassment with osteonecrosis and/or tensile failure with fracture, leading some investigators to believe that these major deformities require open surgical ...[more]