title: [Short-term clinical follow-up of metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the short-term outcome of patients receiving metal-on-mental hip resurfacing arthroplasty and analyze the factors affecting the result.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 13 patients receiving metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasties with scheduled follow-up, the treatment outcomes were assessed according to the Harris Hip Score.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The short-term outcomes of hip resurfacing arthroplasties were encouraging, and intraoperative complications, infections, peripheral nerve palsy, hip dislocations or clinically overt lower limb deep vein thrombosis occurred in none of these cases. All the patients reported complete or major pain relief. Clinical assessment according to the Harris Hip Score revealed an improvement from an average score of 36.69 preoperatively to 89.63 after the surgery. Crutch use lasted for a maximum of 4 weeks postoperatively in these patients, after which the patients were all capable of walking without crutches with full weight-bearing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedics, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
authors.forename: Li-Jun
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: An-Min
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Guo-Fang
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Wei-Yi
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Ge-Jin
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005271:Femur Head Necrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015207:Osteoarthritis, Hip / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult