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Total hip arthroplasty in osteonecrosis secondary to sickle cell disease

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a multisystem disease, and the predominant articular manifestation is osteonecrosis (ON). Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is technically challenging, and the complication rates are high. In this retrospective study, we have analysed the outcome of THA in a cohor...

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Autores principales: Farook, Mohamed Zubair, Awogbade, Moji, Somasundaram, Karthik, Reichert, Ines L. H., Li, Patrick L. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29907913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00264-018-4001-0