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Differentiating FAI from Dysplasia

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Young adult patients presenting with hip pain can pose a challenging diagnostic dilemma for the inexperienced physician. A thorough history and physical examination followed by the appropriate imaging can often lead to the right diagnosis. In this chapter, distinguishing between two of the most common hip pathologies affecting the young adult, namely, hip dysplasia and femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), will be discussed. Diagnosing these two types of mechanical hip disorders can be at times challenging since they can coexist in the same patient [1–3] (Fig. 19.1).

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Matar, W.Y., Parvizi, J. (2012). Differentiating FAI from Dysplasia. In: Marín-Peña, Ó. (eds) Femoroacetabular Impingement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22769-1_19

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