The patient was a 73-year-old man with progressively disabling right hip pain for 2.5 years. The patient had failed ...

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The hip joint consists of two main parts — the femoral head and the acetabulum. The femoral head is a ball-shaped bone at the top of the thigh bone. It sits in the acetabulum, which is a socket ...

A 2008 survey of hip injuries in the NFL introduced the “sports hip triad,” consisting of a hip labral tear, adductor injury and rectus abdominis injury.This concept highlights the frequent ...

To avoid confusion, you should know that the shoulder joint also has a labrum. Labral tears in the shoulder (glenoid labrum) are more common the in the hip (acetabular labrum). There are two ...

Zabinski, MD, Medical Director of Joint Replacement Surgery and Assistant ... the acetabular ball and overlaps with the acetabular cup as the hip undergoes flexion-extension, abduction-adduction ...

The posterolateral approach was used in all procedures. After dislocating the hip joint, acetabular osteophytes were removed, the acetabulum was reamed and the acetabular component was impacted ...

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Acetabular fractures at the final follow-up were evaluated using the modified Merle d'Aubigné-Postel score of the hip joint: 7 cases were excellent, 1 was good, and 3 were poor. 1 patient developed ...