Editorial Commentary: Adolescents Are Not Small Adults, and Girls Are Not Boys: Arthroscopic Treatment of Hip Labral Tears in Adolescents

In a single-surgeon study of more than 1,400 hip arthroscopies, 102 “adolescents” (aged 13-18) were operated on for labral tears. The authors highlighted significant differences between females and males although the final clinical results in both genders were comparable. In contrast to the nearly equal female-to-male ratio seen in most of the adult hip arthroscopy literature, there were >85% females and the authors described several anatomic differences that they stated affected their surgical approach.