title: Disarticulation for failed surgical procedures about the hip.
abstract: Complications following treatment of disease about the hip may render a limb so nonfunctional that the patient is confined to bed or a wheelchair. Admitting therapeutic defeat and knowing "how and when to quit" may be wise. Four chronically disabled patients released from their confinement and rehabilitated by disarticulation of the hip are described.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D001178:Arthroplasty; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000601:surgery; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000601:surgery; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007595:Joint Prosthesis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000601:surgery