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 I. De Martino, MD, Clinical Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Complex Joint Reconstruction CEnter, Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Division  V. G. Soranoglou, MD, Research Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstruction and Joint Replacement Division  L. A. Poultsides, MD, Clinical Fellow, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstruction and Joint ...

Although total joint replacement is an effective treatment option for end-stage lower extremity osteoarthritis, racial disparities in joint replacement utilization have been well documented. These disparities may be due in part to patient-level factors such as willingness to consider joint replacement and worse expectations of joint replacement outcomes. In addition, African-Americans may have ...

The principle of hip joint resurfacing is replacement of diseased joint surfaces and simultaneous restoration of the normal anatomy and biomechanical function to the maximal degree possible. This concept offers several theoretical advantages over conventional total hip joint replacement and the clinical results in this series of 426 cases appears to confirm the value of both the method and the ...

In a 1989 editorial entitled 'Malignancy and joint replacement : the tip of an iceberg?' (1989 ; 71-B : 1), my predecessor offered to collect and later publicise instances of malignancy occurring in close association with joint-replacement implants. Since then we have received six reports, which are not known to have been published elsewhere, ofpatients in whom a malignancy has occurred in asso...