50 Years Ago in CORR: Slipping of the Upper Femoral Epiphysis Beckett Howorth MD CORR 1957;10:148–173

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This month’s symposium reports various aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of femoroacetabular impingement, a condition recognized for well over a century but only recently emphasized, perhaps owing to the recognition of its occurrence in subtle and common forms. It was perhaps first recognized in 1898 a few years after the introduction of the roentgenogram in association with slipped capital femoral epiphysis [11]. According to Howorth, in the article highlighted here, Poland, in 1898, reported a case in which without reducing the displacement, “the projecting anterosuperior margin of the neck was trimmed away” [5]. He also noted that Whitman in 1909 [17] and Vulpius and Stöffel in 1913 [15] reported similar cases. …