COMPLICATIONS OF TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT
| Autor: | Gwilym S. Lodwick, Maurice F. Mullins, Richard N. Sutton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Greater trochanter Joint Prosthesis Radiography medicine.medical_treatment Total hip replacement Arthroplasty symbols.namesake Postoperative Complications medicine Hip Dislocation Humans Surgical Wound Infection Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Femur Hip business.industry Ossification Calcinosis Acetabulum Roentgen General Medicine Surgery Orthopedic surgery symbols Hip Joint medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 121:55-60 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.121.1.55 |
| Popis: | With increasing use of total hip replacement in orthopedic surgery, it is becoming essential for the radiologist to familiarize himself with the normal as well as the abnormal appearance of prostheses used in this procedure. Several authors have examined the complications of total hip replacement with emphasis on problems which are associated with all aspects of the procedure.1,3,6,7,9 In a review of cases of total hip replacement using the Bechtol modification of Charnley’s low-friction arthroplasty at the University of Missouri since November 1971, only those complications with radiographic findings have been included for discussion.Radiographically illustrated complications of total hip replacement are: 1. dislocation; 2. disruption of the transplanted greater trochanter; 3. periarticular calcification and ossification or both; 4. protrusion of the acetabulum; 5. infection; 6. penetration of lateral femoral cortex; and 7. suboptimal acetabulum orientation.It should be noted that not all of these compli... |
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