Open AccessAnthropometric measurements to design best-fit femoral stem for the Indian population
Author(s) -
B.R. Rawal,
Rahul Ribeiro,
Rajesh Malhotra,
Naresh Bhatnagar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5413.91634
Subject(s) - medicine , femoral head , femoral canal , femur , orthodontics , femoral neck , lesser trochanter , greater trochanter , orthopedic surgery , dentistry , surgery , osteoporosis , endocrinology
The standard commercially available marketed prostheses sometimes may not be the best fit to Indian patients because of the large anatomic variation. Orthopedic surgeons always stress the need for a proper implant-patient match in hip joint replacements, in particular, for a cementless femoral stem. The complications of mismatch are aseptic loosening, improper load distribution, and discomfort. The present study was undertaken to compare the differences in dimensions between femurs of elderly Indians and those of populations from other regions in order to solve the problem of a possible geometric mismatch between a selected implant and the hip joint as far as Indian patients are concerned.