title: [Recent advances in imaging of hip and knee prostheses].
abstract: More than 222 000 hip and knee prostheses are implanted each year in France and this number is growing. Simple radiography is generally used to examine these prostheses in situ but this method has several limitations, including superimposition, the inability to visualize some parts of the prosthesis and to study them in the axial plane, and poor visualization of intra- and peri-articular soft tissues. This article describes the advantages offered by computed tomography and ultrasonography in this setting
authors.affiliation: Imagerie Leonard de Vinci, 75116 Paris. gerard.morvan@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morvan
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vuillemin
authors.forename: Henri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guerini
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mathieu
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wybier
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zeitoun
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bossard
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sterin
mesh_terms: D006621:Hip Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007720:Knee Prosthesis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography