Total Hip Revision Surgery

The proceedings of the Eighth Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/Zimmer Othopaedic Symposium, held in Chicago, November 1993, begin with an analysis of revision hip surgery from a clinical perspective utilizing information from the Swedish Hip Registry, followed by 54 papers in sections devoted to mechanisms of failure (particulates/biological events), bone remodeling, bone grafting and substitutes, diagnostic techniques, clinical evaluation of revision surgery, socioeconomic issues, surgical approaches and cement and component removal, clinical results of revision surgery, acetabular reconstruction, femoral reconstruction, new technologies, massive grafts in femoral reconstruction, and infection. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR