Clinical Investigation on Total Hip Replacement for Complete Dislocation of Femoral Head

Abstract

One would say it is difficult to treat high-riding dislocation of the hip joint at a stretch. There required some special operative techniques : to strip surrounding muscles from the femur to pull-down femoral head to the original position, to dispose the dysplastic small original acetablum, and to insert the stem into a narrow canal of the femur. We performed 31 total hip replacements in 24 cases using these techniques. 23 joints of 18 cases which were followed over one year postoperatively were examined in this study. All the cases could obtain the enough activity in their daily life. As mentioned above, we would emphasize that these troublesome cases could be treated operatively adopting our special techniques.