Authors
Citation
H. Tatari et al., Forty-two year survival with bilateral Judet hip prostheses, ARCH ORTHOP, 121(1-2), 2001, pp. 112-113
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Ortopedics, Rehabilitation & Sport Medicine
Journal title
ARCHIVES OF ORTHOPAEDIC AND TRAUMA SURGERY
ISSN journal
09368051
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Volume
121
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
112 - 113
Database
ISI
SICI code
0936-8051(200101)121:1-2<112:FYSWBJ>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
In this case report, a 70-year-old man is presented who had begun to suffer
from ankylosing spondylitis when he was 12 years old and had been operated
on be cause of bilateral hip ankylosis at the age of 21 years. The interes
ting aspect of this case is that both hips were replaced with Judet type pr
ostheses, which survived for 42 years.