Trabecular Metal buttress augment and the Trabecular Metal cup-cage construct in revision hip arthroplasty for severe acetabular bone loss and pelvic discontinuity.

Large acetabular defects can be reconstructed using a tantalum Trabecular Metal acetabular component with Trabecular Metal buttress augments. We asked if these reconstructions survived at short-term follow-up. Of 35 patients undergoing acetabular reconstruction with a Trabecular Metal acetabular revision system from 2006, 19 acetabular revisions associated with major bone loss in which we reconstructed the acetabulum with buttress tantalum augments or cup-cage construct combined with a Trabecular Metal shell, were available for evaluation.