Hip
Original Research
Targeting a New Safe Zone: A Step in the Development of Patient-Specific Component Positioning for Total Hip Arthroplasty
Surgeons often target the Lewinnek zone, with its mean (SD) inclination of 40° (10°) and mean (SD) anteversion of 15° (10°), for acetabular...
Original Research
Leg-Length Discrepancy After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Comparison of Robot-Assisted Posterior, Fluoroscopy-Guided Anterior, and Conventional Posterior Approaches
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) effectively provides adequate pain relief and good long-term outcomes in patients with hip osteoarthritis.
Original Research
Patients’ Perceptions of the Costs of Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
With medical economics in the national sociopolitical spotlight, we conducted a study to assess patients’ understanding of the cost of 2 common...
Case Reports
Total Hip Arthroplasty After Contralateral Hip Disarticulation: A Challenging “Simple Primary”
Patients with lower limb amputation have a high incidence of hip and knee osteoarthritis in both the residual limb and the contralateral limb. Hip...
Original Research
Operative Intervention for Geriatric Hip Fracture: Does Type of Surgery Affect Hospital Length of Stay?
Hip fractures are the most costly fall-related fractures.
Tips
Retrograde Reamer/Irrigator/Aspirator Technique for Autologous Bone Graft Harvesting With the Patient in the Prone Position
In recent years, the Reamer/Irrigator/Aspirator (RIA) system (Synthes, West Chester, Pennsylvania) has emerged as an extremely effective...