Acetabular Rim Ossification Variants Are Found in Almost 20% of Patients Presenting With Hip Pain.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the prevalence of 4 different types of acetabular rim ossifications, including partial labral ossification or punctate calcification, true os acetabuli, acetabular rim stress fracture, and complete labral ossification, and to determine whether different types of periacetabular ossifications are linked to demographic or radiological factors.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the medial records of patients presenting for hip-related complaints at 2 sports medicine practices from September 2007 to December 2009. An anteroposterior radiograph of both hips and a lateral radiograph of each hip was obtained for all patients and reviewed for findings of cam and pincer femoroacetabular impingement, degenerative changes (Tönnis grade), and periacetabular calcifi

SUBMITTER: Safran MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461137 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature