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Surgical Management of CAM-Type FAI: A Technique Guide

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Diagnosis and Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement

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Conservative management of FAI remains a first-line treatment; however, the physical and structural abnormality often necessitates surgical intervention to restore impingement-free motion [1–3]. Surgical management, therefore, is often indicated in FAI, especially after a patient fails conservative management [3]. Although open, mini-open, and arthroscopic techniques have been described, both in the lateral decubitus and supine positions, the use of a particular technique is often dependent on surgeon preference [4]. This chapter will highlight the technique for arthroscopic management in the supine position for cam-type FAI and will also briefly compare the supine position to the lateral decubitus position.

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The authors wish to express their gratitude to Marie-Claude Leblanc, MD, FRCSC, for the intraoperative photographs taken for this chapter.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University Medical Centre, 1200 Main Street West, 4E15, Hamilton, ON, L8N 3Z5, Canada

    Darren de SA MD & Olufemi R. Ayeni MD, MSc, FRCSC

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

    Matti Seppänen MD

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Austin E. MacDonald MD(Cand)

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de SA, D., Seppänen, M., MacDonald, A.E., Ayeni, O.R. (2017). Surgical Management of CAM-Type FAI: A Technique Guide. In: Ayeni, O., Karlsson, J., Philippon, M., Safran, M. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32000-7_8

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