[Fifty-year survival of a Judet acrylic prosthesis].
The first mould arthroplasty was made from glass in 1923 and was inserted in an ankylosed hip by Smith-Petersen at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Over the next decades, various other materials were used such as Vitallium (cobalt-chromium alloy), introduced in 1938 and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) by the Judet brothers in 1950. These prostheses are no longer in use. We report the case of a patient with a Judet acrylic prosthesis which has remained in place since 1951.
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Centre Hospitalier du Bois de l'Abbaye, Département de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologique, Rue Laplace, 10, 4100 Seraing, Belgique.
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D000368:Aged; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D013997:Time Factors
D011109:Polymethacrylic Acids; C030613:polymethacrylic acid