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Bilateral Complications of Hemiarthroplasty after Displaced Femoral Neck Fracture Treatment Cover

Bilateral Complications of Hemiarthroplasty after Displaced Femoral Neck Fracture Treatment

Open Access
|Aug 2017

Abstract

Hemiarthroplasty (HA) of the hip joint is a commonly used treatment method for displaced femoral neck fractures (FNF) in the elderly population. The revision rates following hemiarthroplasty for trauma are 4-24% (2), but there are few studies in the literature presenting bilateral complications of HA following FNF treatment. We present a 67-year-old female with migration and angular deformity of the left unipolar prosthesis followed by malposition and subluxation of the right unipolar prosthesis after sixteen months, which are not common complications and they are even less frequent to occur in one patient.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/chilat-2017-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2199-5737 | Journal ISSN: 1407-981X
Language: English
Page range: 24 - 25
Published on: Aug 22, 2017
Published by: Riga Stradins University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2017 Andris Dzerins, Peteris Studers, Matiss Zolmanis, published by Riga Stradins University
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