Hip replacement : current trends and controversies

✍ Scribed by Raj K. Sinha

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker,CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hip Replacement offers useful strategies to

choose the appropriate biomaterials and implant structure

avoid complications in hip replacement surgery

analyze the bone-biomaterial interface

perform difficult hip reconstructions

track in vivo performance of hip prosthetics

inhibit implant loosening and the formation of wear debris

classify acetabular defects for surgical revisions
Providing nearly 200 figures, pictures, and micrographs to clarify surgical procedures, Hip Replacement is a timely and state-of-the-art guide for orthopaedic and hip replacement surgeons; geriatricians; biomedical, biomaterials, and chemical engineers and bioengineers; physical, materials, biological, and polymer scientists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Alternate bearing surfaces in hip replacement --
Cementless femoral stem design --
Cemented stems --
Acetabular component design --
Biological fixation in hip replacement --
Osteolysis in total hip arthroplasty: biological and clinical aspects --
Revision arthroplasty of the acetabulum with restoration of bone stock --
Revision of the femoral component --
Arthroplasty of the hip revisited: current indications and surgical technique --
Treatment of the infected total hip arthroplasty --
Hip arthroscopy --
Computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery for the hip --
Five-step approach to preoperative planning in total hip arthroplasty.

✦ Subjects

Arthroplasty. Total hip replacement. Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip. Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip -- trends.