Osteoporosis in men: a potential role for the sex hormone binding globulin.

The exact mechanism of bone loss remains unknown in primary male osteoporosis. It has been suggested that estrogen and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) play a role in regulating bone turnover and bone mass in healthy men > 65 years of age. In the present study, 80 men (mean age 49.

[Repair of the acetabulum using a bone homograft preserved at the time of revision of total hip prostheses].

Between 1973 and 1982 the authors have used the preserved femoral head to allograft the affected acetabulum in 80 patients with loose total hip arthroplasties. The problems of reconstruction were various and several techniques were used. 65 cases have been reviewed with more than one year follow-up.