2019Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related SurgeryRequires access

Editorial Commentary: Doctor, Will My Contralateral Hip Surgery Go as Well as the First One?

Arpad Konyves

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Abstract

Patients presenting with bilateral symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement for staged bilateral hip surgery or developing pain in their nonoperated hip after hip arthroscopy are likely to have similar pathology in both hips. They have a high likelihood of similarly good outcome after their contralateral hip arthroscopy.

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Patients presenting with bilateral symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement for staged bilateral hip surgery or developing pain in their nonoperated hip after hip arthroscopy are likely to have similar pathology in both hips. They have a high likelihood of similarly good outcome after their contralateral hip arthroscopy.

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Patients presenting with bilateral symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement for staged bilateral hip surgery or developing pain in their nonoperated hip after hip arthroscopy are likely to have similar pathology in both hips. They have a high likelihood of similarly good outcome after their contralateral hip arthroscopy.

Key concepts: Hip arthroscopy, Femoroacetabular impingement, Medicine, Hip pain, Surgery, Arthroscopy, Hip surgery, Physical therapy

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