title: Total hip arthroplasty in chronically dislocated hips. Follow-up study on the protrusio socket technique.
abstract: The so-called protrusio socket technique of total hip arthroplasty was shown to be very effective in a series of twenty-two chronically dislocated or subluxated hips. In seventeen patients with follow-up of sixteen to fifty-nine months, excellent results were obtained in all but two hips. Obesity and rheumatoid arthritis or other systemic causes of osteopenia are considered contraindications to the procedure.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications; D001178:Arthroplasty / Q000379:methods*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006617:Hip Dislocation / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007595:Joint Prosthesis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography