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More than just a bump: cam-type femoroacetabular impingement and the evolution of the femoral neck.
Hip international : the journal of clinical and experimental research on hip pathology and therapy - 1 Jan 2000
Ng Vincent Y, Ellis Thomas J
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Recent orthopaedic literature has implicated femoroacetabular impingement, the pathologic abutment of structural aberrancies in the proximal femur and acetabular rim, as an important cause of groin pain in young individuals and a potential factor in early idiopathic osteoarthritis. The etiology and risk factors for developing cam-type morphology are still unknown. The osseous anatomy of the proximal femur in...
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