REVISION THR AFTER PERIPROSTHETIC FEMORAL FRACTURES - AN ANALYSIS OF 23 CASES

Authors
KOLSTAD K
Citation
K. Kolstad, REVISION THR AFTER PERIPROSTHETIC FEMORAL FRACTURES - AN ANALYSIS OF 23 CASES, Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica, 65(5), 1994, pp. 505-508
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Orthopedics
Journal title
Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00016470
Volume
65
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
505 - 508
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6470(1994)65:5<505:RTAPFF>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
23 consecutive proximal femoral fractures in 22 patients, who had prev iously undergone total hip arthroplasty, were treated with long revisi on stems. At the time of the fracture, 21 stems were loose. An uncemen ted Wagner revision stem was used in 9 cases and different conventiona l revision stems in the others. All fractures healed, but 7 of the con ventional revision implants rapidly loosened again, whereas so far non e of the Wagner stems have loosened.