Femoral Bone Is Preserved Using Cemented Polished Stems in Young Patients

• Published in: Clinical orthopaedics and related research Vol. 470; no. 11; pp. 3024 - 3031
• Main Authors: Howie, Donald W., Costi, Kerry, McGee, Margaret A., Standen, Angela, Solomon, Lucian B.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.11.2012; Springer; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age; Age Factors; Arthroplasty; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; Biological and medical sciences; Bone (long); Bone Cements; Bone grafts; Bone implants; Bone loss; Bone surgery; Conservative Orthopedics; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Female; Femur; Femur - diagnostic imaging; Hip; Hip Joint - diagnostic imaging; Hip Prosthesis; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Orthopedics; Osteolysis; osteotomy; Prosthesis Failure; Radiography; Reoperation; Sports Medicine; Stems; Surgery; Surgical Orthopedics; Survival; Symposium: Papers Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the International Hip Society; Young Adult; Gruen Zone; Femoral Osteotomy; Bone Deficiency; Femoral Stem; Periprosthetic Fracture; Human; Femur; Orthopedics; Young adult; Cement; Bone; Stem

Background Techniques that ensure femoral bone preservation after primary THA are important in younger patients who are likely to undergo revision surgery. Questions/purposes We examined femoral stem survival, bone deficiency at revision arthroplasty, and radiographic bone loss in hips implanted wit...