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New Concepts in Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome

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Hip Arthroscopy and Hip Joint Preservation Surgery

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First description of femoroacetabular impingement goes back to the nineteenth century, although the pathomorphology itself has already shown in archaeological specimens 5000 years ago. The first description of the femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) concept in the literature was in 2003. FAI is therefore not a new pathology, but rather a conceptualization of a pre-arthritic pathomechanism that has existed for a long time. In the last 20 years, new insights mainly comprise the implementation of femoral torsion, the occurrence of extraarticular femoroacetabular conflicts, the three-dimensional understanding of the pathology, and specific knowledge on potential predictive factors influencing the clinical result. In particular, femoral torsion has been established as the third pillar of femoroacetabular impingement and directly influences the surgical treatment of this pathomorphology.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, HFR Fribourg - Cantonal Hospital, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Corinne A. Zurmühle, Vera M. Stetzelberger & Moritz Tannast

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, HFR Cantonal Hospital, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Matthieu Hanauer, Jonathan Laurençon & Darius Marti

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Sports Medicine, Section of Young Adult Hip Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

    Shane J. Nho

  2. Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Asheesh Bedi

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Joint Preservation and Cartilage Restoration Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Michael J. Salata

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

    Richard C. Mather III

  5. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, Center for Hip Preservation Surgery Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA

    Bryan T. Kelly

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Zurmühle, C.A., Stetzelberger, V.M., Hanauer, M., Laurençon, J., Marti, D., Tannast, M. (2022). New Concepts in Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome. In: Nho, S.J., Bedi, A., Salata, M.J., Mather III, R.C., Kelly, B.T. (eds) Hip Arthroscopy and Hip Joint Preservation Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43240-9_172

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