title: Fracture of two successive Ring TiMESH cemented hip prostheses.
abstract: We report the unfortunate case of a man who experienced stem failures of both his primary and revision hip arthroplasties. As far as we are aware this is the only reported case of a patient to suffer the misfortune of multiple femoral implant failures.
authors.affiliation: St. Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, UK. mdgardiner@gmail.com
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Gardiner
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Macdowell