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SUBMITTER: Garabekyan T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4886042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arthroscopy techniques 20160215 1
Ligamentum teres (LT) tears are increasingly being recognized as a source of pain and dysfunction in the hip. Although debridement for partial tears of the LT has long been established as the standard of care with good pain relief, reconstruction has been successfully performed in select patients to address concerns of persistent symptomatic instability. The current technique for femoral tunnel preparation carries the added morbidity of open dissection in the peritrochanteric space, an unnecessa ...[more]