Editorial Commentary: “The Earth is Not Flat”: Progressing From Plain Radiographs to Three-Dimensional Imaging When Evaluating Hip Disorders

Dysplastic hip morphologies have received increasing attention in the hip preservation community. Defining and characterizing “transitional acetabular coverage” or “borderline” dysplasia has been extraordinarily challenging, and these hips have been lumped together based on focal radiographic measurements such as the lateral center edge and Tonnis angles. Some of these hips are treated with arthroscopy and some wit h corrective osteotomies without definitive patient-related outcome measure winners in our literature.
Source: Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Editorial Commentary Source Type: research