ABSTRACT:
In the last 15 years, the diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement has become more
frequent; with the advance of surgical indications, different techniques have been
developed. Surgical treatment includes a wide variety of options, namely: periacetabular
osteotomy, surgical hip dislocation, arthroscopy with osteochondroplasty via a small
incision, modified anterior approach technique, and exclusively arthroscopic technique.
The type of approach should be chosen according to the complexity of the morphology
of the femoroacetabular impingement and to the surgeon's training. The techniques
most used today are arthroscopy, surgical dislocation of the hip, and periacetabular
osteotomy. The present article aims to describe the current main surgical techniques
used to treat femoroacetabular impingement, their indications, advantages and disadvantages,
complications and clinical results.
Keywords: hip; femoroacetabular impingement/therapy; femoroacetabular impingement/surgery; arthroscopy.
RESUMO:
Nos últimos 15 anos, o diagnóstico do impacto femoroacetabular tem se tornado cada
vez mais frequente; com o avanço do entendimento de quais pacientes potencialmente
se beneficiariam do tratamento cirúrgico, diferentes técnicas foram desenvolvidas.
O tratamento cirúrgico inclui grande variedade de opções, sendo elas: osteotomia periacetabular,
técnica de luxação cirúrgica do quadril, artroscopia com osteocondroplastia via pequena
incisão, técnica via anterior modificada, e técnica exclusivamente artroscópica. O
tipo de abordagem deve ser escolhido de acordo com a complexidade da morfologia do
impacto femoroacetabular e com o treinamento do cirurgião. As técnicas mais utilizadas
atualmente são a artroscopia, a luxação cirúrgica do quadril e a osteotomia periacetabular.
O presente artigo busca descrever as principais técnicas cirúrgicas utilizadas para
o tratamento do impacto femoroacetabular, suas indicações, vantagens e desvantagens,
complicações e resultados clínicos.
Palavras-chave: quadril; impacto femoroacetabular/terapia; impacto femoroacetabular/cirurgia; artroscopia.
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| Citation: Queiroz MC, Ricioli Junior W, Ejnisman L, Gurgel HMC, Miyahara HS, Polesello GC. Femoroacetabular Impingement and Acetabular Labral Tears - Part 3: Surgical Treatment*. 55(5):532. doi:10.1055/s-0040-1714220 |
| Note: * Study carried out in the Hip Group of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo (FCMSCSP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. |
| Conflict of Interests The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests. |
| Received: February 20 2020; Accepted: April 15 2020 |
INTRODUCTION
In the last 15 years, the diagnosis of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has become increasingly frequent; with the advance of the understanding of which patients would potentially benefit from surgical treatment, different techniques have been developed. Surgical treatment includes a wide variety of options: periacetabular osteotomy,1 technique of surgical dislocation of the hip,2 arthroscopy with osteochondroplasty via small incision,3 modified anterior approach technique4 and exclusively arthroscopic technique.5 The type of approach should be chosen according to the complexity of the FAI morphology and to the surgeon's training.
The most used techniques currently are arthroscopy, surgical hip dislocation, and periacetabular osteotomy.
The technique initially developed was the surgical dislocation of the hip,2 which allows almost circumferential access to the femoral neck, and its greatest advantage is the possibility of performing associated procedures such as trochanteric advancement, relative stretching of the cervix, and femoral osteotomies. It requires a wide route, longer time of load protection and movements due to osteotomy and, although infrequent, may present with trochanteric pseudoarthrosis and need for removal of the screws.
Hip arthroscopy has had a major development in the last 10 years5 and has replaced controlled dislocation as the procedure of choice for most cases. It is extremely important to accurately diagnose the deformity to make sure that it is possible to be treated arthroscopically. Anterolateral pathologies, which are the most common ones, are addressed extremely effectively by video.
Periacetabular osteotomy,1 although its precise indication is for the treatment of acetabular dysplasia, can be used in the treatment of acetabular retroversion. In this type of situation, the osteotomy is corrected in reverse, that is, performed anteversion and extension of the acetabulum.
Regardless of the technique, the principles of treatment are the same: correction of bone deformities and treatment of chondrolabral lesions.
Surgical Hip Dislocation
Surgical hip dislocation was described by Ganz et al. in 20012 after studies on femoral head vascularization6 and the finding that it would be possible to perform femoral head dislocation, keeping the medial femoral circumflex artery intact. For this, a digastric trochanteric osteotomy, an anterior capsulotomy and anterior hip dislocation are performed. For the preservation of the vascularization of the head, the key is an exchange-level osteotomy at the correct level, that is, superior to the posterior edge of the middle gluteus to the lower edge of the vastus lateralis. Osteotomy can be performed in an incomplete anterior manner and with a step7 for greater postreduction stability and greater congruence of the fragments. Screws of large or small fragments can be used for fixation of osteotomy. Figure 1
This route has the advantage of allowing almost circumferential access to the femoral neck and performing associated procedures such as trochanteric advancement, relative stretching of the neck, and femoral osteotomies. As disadvantages, it requires a wide pathway, longer load protection time and active abduction due to trochanteric osteotomy, and, although infrequent, it may present with pseudoarthrosis, osteonecrosis of the femoral head, heterotopic ossification, and need for removal of the screws.8
The clinical results described for the treatment of FAI with surgical dislocation are encouraging,9 with good results reported with a minimum follow-up of 510,11 and 10 years.12
Hip Arthroscopy
Arthroscopy for the treatment of FAI is recent.5,13-15 Important advances in arthroscopic technique and materials have allowed deformities to be addressed in a less invasive manner. Arthroscopic treatment of FAI can be performed by osteoplasty of the proximal femur, resection of acetabular overcover, and repair/refixation of acetabular lip or debridement, in cases in which this is not possible.
In the arthroscopic technique, the correction of bone deformities is done with the aid of bone shavers. This resection should be meticulous (Figure 2), as the major cause of hip revision arthroscopies is insufficient resections of the FAI deformity that lead to persistent hip clamping.16-18 The surgeon uses direct visualization, radioscopy and therapeutic testing as a guide for intraoperative resection. In this test, the patient's limb is loose from traction, and the hip is placed in flexion and internal rotation while the surgeon directly observes if there is any residual impact. If any bone conflict can still be observed in any area, it must be corrected.
The arthroscopic anatomy has been widely studied, establishing arthroscopic portals that are well defined, safe, and with anatomical technique in relation to the preservation of femoral neck vascularization.1,9,20
Lip repair can also be performed arthroscopically. Initially, acetabular labral lesions were debrided, but later studies demonstrated superior clinical results with lip repair.21 Labral lesions are repaired by means of absorbable anchors. Generally, multiple anchors are required for proper repair, depending on the size of the lesion. In complex lesions of the acetabular lip, in which the labial tissue is not healthy for repair, it is recommended reconstruction of the acetabular lip, which can be performed with autologous graft of the iliotibial band, femoral head ligament or allografts.22,23
The orthopedist should be familiar with arthroscopic anatomy, as there may be difficulty in guiding the location and regarding the required amount of bone resection. Insufficient bone resection results in residual impact and is an important reason for reoperations.17,18 On the other hand, excessive resection is associated with risk of femoral neck fracture and instability.24 Anatomical studies have proven that both open and arthroscopic cervical osteoplasties, when performed by trained surgeons, show equal precision. ,25,26 and clinical studies have demonstrated the efficacy of restoration of femoral offset by arthroscopic route.27,28 Thus, the arthroscopic treatment technique of FAI is feasible and reproducible.
The results of hip arthroscopy for FAI treatment and labral injury are promising, with excellent satisfaction rates, improvement of clinical scores, and high rates of return to sport. A recent systematic review evaluated predictors of good prognosis for patients undergoing arthroscopy.29 A total of 39 studies with more than 9,000 patients were included. Predictors of good prognosis were considered: young patients, male gender, lower body mass index (BMI) (< 24.5), Tonnis classification 0, and pain relief after intra-articular anesthetic infiltration. Predictors of poor prognosis were considered: age greater than 45 years, female gender, high BMI, arthritic alterations, decreased joint space (< 2 mm), chondral defects, increased lateral center-edge (CE) angle, and patients undergoing labral debridement. Another systematic review evaluated the rate of return to sport after hip arthroscopy for FAI.30 Thirty-one studies with a total of 19,111 patients were evaluated. The rate of return to sports was 87.7% A correlation was found between shorter time of preoperative symptoms and a higher rate of return to sports. In comparison with physiotherapy treatment, hip arthroscopy presents better results,31-33 fewer complications, although with the same clinical results as surgical dislocation,9 it provides a higher probability of returning to sports activity and earlier than surgical dislocation.34,35
The incidence of complications in hip arthroscopy is about 1.5%,36 with the most common complication being reversible nerve dysfunction. The most common cause of reoperation after arthroscopy for FAI is insufficient bone resection and persistence of conflict between the acetabulum and femoral head/neck.17,18 Other complications are also related to the surgical technique, such as cartilage deformation (scuffing) by instrumental abrasion, penetration of the acetabular lip, and joint penetration by the material for fixation of the acetabular lip (anchors). The positioning of the patient on the traction table and the traction time are paramount to avoid neurological and cutaneous lesions, and the maximum recommended traction time is 2 hours.37 Cases of femoral neck fracture are described in the literature, and resection is considered safe up to the limit of 30% of the femoral neck diameter.24
Periacetabular Osteotomy Reverse
Periacetabular osteotomy (PAO) was described in 1988 for the treatment of acetabular hip dysplasia.1 Acetabular retroversion is one of the causes of pincer impact and can be corrected through a reverse acetabular osteotomy, that is, performed anteversion and extension of the acetabulum. The acetabular retroversion is different from a previous focal overcover. In retroversion beyond the crossing signal, the signal of the back wall is positive. Other possible indications of reverse PAO are severe acetabular protrusions, in which the angle of the ceiling is negative, and a resection of the acetabular rim could result in a dysplastic acetabulum.
The surgical technique is the same as the original PAO, except for the correction of the fragment, which must be anticipated (internal rotation) and extended. These corrections tend to lateralize and distalize the center of rotation, and eventually it may be necessary to remove wedges from the regions of the corrections to allow the necessary rotation. The most common correction is to remove a wedge from the upper ilium to osteotomy and shorten the stable part of the osteotomy of the pubic branch. Fragment rotation is usually more difficult. The optimal correction is obtained with the angle of the ceiling between 1 and 10 degrees, CE angle from 25 to 30 degrees, correction of the crossing signal and the signal of the back wall. (Figure 3)
Reverse PAO results for the treatment of acetabular retroversion are limited. A series of 29 hips showed good and excellent results in 26 hips (89% of cases) with an average follow-up of 30 months.38 Another series with a mean follow-up of 5 years, showed an improvement in the average Harris hip score from 58 to 93, and the need for reoperation in 13% of the cases.39
Complications are similar to those already described for conventional PAO, hematoma, infection, paralysis or nerve injury, heterotopic ossification, and need for implant removal.40
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
The type of approach should be chosen according to the complexity of the morphology of the FAI and the training of the surgeon. The most used techniques currently are arthroscopy, hip surgical dislocation, and reverse PAO, each with its indications, advantages and disadvantages, complications, and clinical results.
