## Abstract A case of osseous reankylosis occurred after total replacement of one hip in a patient having ankylosing spondylitis. Not only did the ankylotic disease involve the vertebral column, but the severity of this process had been manifest through osseous ankylosis of bilateral cup arthroplas
Total hip arthroplasty in Japanese patients with ankylosing spondylitis
β Scribed by Tomonori Baba; Katsuo Shitoto; Kazuo Kaneko; Hisashi Inoue; Masahiko Nozawa; Yuichiro Maruyama
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 356 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1068
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