Contemporary algorithms for evaluation of the painful total hip replacement.
Current data on the interpretation of nuclear medicine scans following total hip replacement are reviewed along with a new diagnostic test--the dynamic computed tomographic scan. Intraoperative diagnostic tests include frozen section, Gram's stain, and mechanical testing. This information is consolidated with that previously presented into a series of algorithms for evaluating the painful total hip replacement.
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Hip and Implant Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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D000465:Algorithms; D001175:Arthrography; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004164:Diphosphonates; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D004164:Diphosphonates; D017556:Technetium Compounds; D013667:Technetium; C029045:technetium Tc 99m diphosphonate