The use of modular femoral stems in primary and revision arthroplasty of the hip has become popular within the last … loosening, dissociation and fracture of modular prostheses. Recently a problem of fracture of a locking screw in revision … arthroplasty of the hip using the MRP Titan Stem (Peter Brehm GmbH, Weisendorf, Germany) appeared. The aim of this study is to …

decompression versus conservative management for osteonecrosis of the hip as a way to delay hip replacement; 2. Total knee … arthroplasty versus unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; and 3. Periacetabular osteotomy versus total hip arthroplasty for a young … adult with developmental dysplasia of the hip. The more cost effective intervention was identified in each case, along with …

Knee (N = 185) and hip (N = 140) replacement cases were studied at nine community hospitals in the midwestern United …

fracture and SEK 63 000 for a hip fracture. Although that the response rate is low the cost and quality of life related to hip … the hip, spine, wrist and shoulder and further to identify important cost items that should be included in future studies … fracture are close to the results presented in other studies. The major new finding is that spine fractures are associated with …

hip, spine and wrist fracture in osteoporotic women by approximately one half. Objective: To use data from FIT to conduct …) were exposed to alendronate therapy and transitioned over time from a `well' health state to health states of `hip fracture …Background: The Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) demonstrated that the bisphosphonate alendronate reduces the risk of …

simulation with Gauss–Seidel iteration for brittle fracture Mode I. The material-dependent parameter, G0/G, is introduced in this …. Brittle fracture of the same material with different quenched disorders is simulated. Fractal dimension of crack fluctuates … with quenched disorder. It seems that it is impossible to have a universal fractal dimension of crack in brittle fracture …