Post Op Hip pain 53F surgery 6 months ago XR What do you think?

Tatiane Cantarelli came through quickly with an explanation

Management of femoral head fracture by Ganz surgical dislocation of the hiphttps://jorthoptraumatol.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s10195-022-00643-w

It makes better sense, the FH is a fracture fixation…though it doesn’t look terribly fixed in my case
I have no way of knowing if there was pre-op DJD….at this point, fracture healing seems irrelevant as she needs a THR

Thank you Tatiane!

I’m curious if any of you know what the surgeon did here
This is a 53 year old woman, the surgery was in May of this year and she still has right hip pain
It seems that these were osteotomies, though I have never seen a femoral head osteotomy…have you?
Based on the AP view, it seems that the femoral head osteotomy may not be united
Of course the pain might be from the severe degenerative cartilage loss, though I don’t have pre-op XRs to know if it is new, worse or unchanged
I don’t know that it makes sense to chase evaluation of healing with a CT, since it seems she needs a THR

Please share your thoughts

Thank you

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