title: [Hip arthroscopy: differential diagnosis of pain around the hip joint].
abstract: Hip arthroscopy is one of the most highly evolving surgical techniques in recent years. It plays a major role in the diagnosis and treatment of a broad spectrum of hip pathologies. The evaluation of the painful hip requires meticulous history taking, elaborated physical examination, and basic and advanced imaging modalities. The differential diagnosis includes a continuously growing number of diagnoses. Once considered an "operation looking for indications", the current indications for hip arthroscopy are based on a better understanding of pathologies around the hip joint. The results of recently published intermediate and long term clinical outcome studies are encouraging. Ongoing, comprehensive understanding of the correlation between pathologies and clinical presentation will improve the surgical technique, which in turn may become a joint preserving operation.
authors: Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Orthopedic Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. eyalamar73@gmail.com
authors: Eyal
authors: E
authors: Amar
authors: Tomer
authors: T
authors: Ben-Tov
authors: Baruch
authors: B
authors: Danino
authors: Ofir
authors: O
authors: Chechik
authors: Morsi
authors: M
authors: Khashan
authors: Ehud
authors: E
authors: Rath
mesh_terms: D001182:Arthroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology