title: [Conversion total hip replacement after failed internal fixation of intertrochantric fracture].
abstract: Between 1933-1995, 16 patients underwent conversion-total hip replacement after internal fixation of an intertrochanteric fracture failed. Clinical results were unsatisfactory compared to primary total hip replacement. There was a high incidence of intra- and postoperative complications, including femoral fracture, wound infection, and aseptic loosening. This study should increase the surgeon's awareness of the difficulties encountered in conversion of failed intertrochanteric fractures to total hip replacement.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kligman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roffman
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D005264:Femoral Fractures; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D016268:Internal Fixators; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection