The value of aspiration of the hip joint before revision total hip arthroplasty.
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 75 (1), 66-76
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199301000-00010
Abstract
The role of aspiration of the hip joint before revision of a total hip arthroplasty remains controversial. To address this issue, we reviewed the results of 270 consecutive hips in which aspiration had been attempted before revision procedures that were performed between 1980 and 1988. All hThis publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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