CORR Insights®: Femoral Morphology in the Dysplastic Hip: Three-dimensional Characterizations With CT

CORR Insights ®: Intramedullary nailing of femoral diaphyseal metastases: is it necessary to protect the femoral neck?

BACKGROUND Intramedullary nailing is the accepted form of treatment for impending or pathologic fractures of the femoral diaphysis. Traditional teaching promotes the use of a cephalomedullary nail so that stabilization is provided for the femoral neck in the event that a future femoral neck metastasis develops. However, that approach may add cost, surgical time, blood loss, and added radiation ...

Three-dimensional Assessment of Femoral Head Coverage in Normal and Dysplastic Hips: A Novel Method.

The acetabular coverage of the femoral head has been assessed in two-dimensions as the projected covered area or the covered angle on plain radiographs. We present a novel method of the three-dimensional assessment of femoral head coverage obtained by evaluating the covered volume of the femoral head in both normal and dysplastic hips. We also assessed the covered angles on the vertical slices ...

The dysplastic hip.

CORR Insights®: Complications Are Not Increased With Acetabular Revision of Metal-on-metal Total Hip Arthroplasty

T he past decade has been dominated by the rise and fall of metal-on-metal (MoM) as a bearing surface in THA. Unfortunately, the treatment of patients who have adverse local tissue reactions from MoM THA, specifically major soft-tissue damage, continues to present considerable challenges. The current study by Penrose and colleagues examined the Medicare database, detailing and comparing the out...

Total Hip Arthroplasty with Modular Stem for Dysplastic Hips in South Asian Population

Introduction: Optimum component positioning and orientation is required to optimize the functional result during total hip arthroplasty for dysplastic hips. Patients and methods: Sixty-two patients (66 hips) including 33 males and 29 females underwent total hip arthroplasty using modular stem prosthesis at an average age of 40.6 years (range 17 to 49 years). Nineteen hips were clas...