Massive pelvic and femoral pseudotumoral osteolysis secondary to an uncemented total hip arthroplasty.

Int Orthop

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France.

Published: May 1999

A 51 year-old man developed an extensive osteolytic response to wear debris in an uncemented porous-coated total hip arthroplasty, with metal/polyethylene interface, which had been implanted eighteen years previously. This reaction, which involved the upper femur and the ilium, produced a mass which compressed the pelvic viscera.

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