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SUBMITTER: Aguiar T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4129981 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Aguiar Thiago T Dantas Pedro P
Arthroscopy techniques 20140527 3
Proximal femur osteochondromas are relatively rare, particularly in the femoral neck. The choice of treatment poses difficulties to the surgeon. We report an unusual case of a patient with 2 osteochondromas in the femoral neck causing femoroacetabular impingement. Appropriate identification and precise resection of the lesions are important steps of the surgical procedure. We present our arthroscopic surgical technique to access the lesions and perform their resection. To our knowledge, this is ...[more]