title: Restoration of femoral offset, rotation centers, limbs length equality of Chinese total hip arthroplasty patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the restoration of femoral offset, rotation centers, limbs length equality of Chinese total hip arthroplasty patients with careful preoperative surgical planning, the appropriate prosthesis and skillful manipulation combined with a variety of verification tests during the operation.
  
  
  METHODS
  There were 92 hips (from 92 patients) surgery was performed by the same surgeon using the posterlateral approach by careful preoperative surgical planning. Appropriate prosthesis was chosen determining the reasonable femur osteotomy location, skillful manipulation and paying attention to every detail combined with a variety of verification tests and preoperative measurements during the operation. We evaluated the offset and rotation centers of the healthy (not performed) side and the operated side, the preoperative and postoperative limbs length discrepancy and analyzed the change of femoral offset, rotation centers and limbs length discrepancy of THA patients by self-control.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found that the preoperative and postoperative femoral offset was basically not changed, the postoperative rotation centers had a tendency to the medial and inferior of the original rotation centers, the limbs length discrepancy and Harris Hip Score (HHS) were improved much more than before.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Careful preoperative surgical planning, the appropriate prosthesis and skillful manipulation combined with a variety of verification tests during the operation is significantly correlated to the remarkable radiological and clinical results of THA patients.
authors.affiliation: Yu-ping Liu, Department of Trauma Orthopedics, Tengzhou Central People's Hospital, Shandong, PR China.
authors.forename: Yu-Ping
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Yue-dong Hao, Department of Orthopedics, Huaian first people's hospital, Jiangsu, PR China.
authors.forename: Yue-Dong
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Hao
keywords: Femoral offset; Limbs length; Rotation centers; Total hip arthoplasty