Fifty-year survival of a Judet acrylic prosthesis


Published online: Oct 27 2002

Kamangu M, Burette JL.

Centre Hospitalier du Bois de l'Abbaye, Departement de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique, Rue Laplace, 10, 4100 Seraing, Belgique.

Abstract

The first mould arthroplasty was made from glass in 1923 and was inserted in an ankylosed hip by Smith-Petersen at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Over the next decades, various other materials were used such as Vitallium (cobalt-chromium alloy), introduced in 1938 and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) by the Judet brothers in 1950. These prostheses are no longer in use. We report the case of a patient with a Judet acrylic prosthesis which has remained in place since 1951.

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