Metastatic carcinoma as an unusual cause of failure in total hip arthroplasty | Zendy

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Metastatic carcinoma as an unusual cause of failure in total hip arthroplasty

Author(s) -

Alexandre Pereira,

Marta Massada,

Ricardo Sousa,

Rafael Pereira Lemos

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of surgical case reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.14

H-Index - 3

ISSN - 2042-8812

DOI - 10.1093/jscr/2012.3.9

Subject(s) - medicine , osteolysis , total hip arthroplasty , carcinoma , pathological , metastasis , surgery , infiltration (hvac) , arthroplasty , radiography , lung , pathology , cancer , physics , thermodynamics

Evaluation of osteolysis after total hip arthroplasty remains a challenge. It may reflect a myriad of problems: from wear-debris induced lesions to infection, metabolic bone disease or even malignant infiltration. We present the clinical, radiographic and pathological features of a 64-year-old woman in whom loosening and failure of total hip arthroplasty occurred secondary to a periacetabular metastasis from a previously undiagnosed lung carcinoma.

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