title: Instrumentation for the revision of total hip arthroplasty.
abstract: Revisions of total hip arthroplasties are destined to overload operating schedules in the next decade. An analysis of present trends and highlights of some unresolved problems reveal the urgent need to develop specific jigs and instrumentation to make revision surgery easier on both patient and surgeon.
mesh_terms: D004868:Equipment Failure; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000601:surgery; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation / Q000295:instrumentation