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A 42-year-old patient presenting with femoral head migration after hemiarthroplasty performed 22 years earlier: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Treatment of femoral neck fractures in young adults may require total hip arthroplasty or hip hemiarthroplasty using a bipolar cup. The latter can, however, result in migration of the femoral head and poor long-term results. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of femoral head migration...

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Autores principales: Kanda, Akio, Kaneko, Kazuo, Obayashi, Osamu, Mogami, Atsuhiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25592554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-9-17