Polymethylmethacrylate arteriography – A complication of total hip arthroplasty


Published online: Apr 19 2006

Konstantinos Panousis, Kenneth A. Young, Peter Grigoris

From Western Infirmary, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Abstract

We report a complication of contemporary cementing technique in total hip arthroplasty, that is, extensive retrograde filling with polymethylmethacrylate cement of the nutrient artery of the femur.

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