Revision of Loose Femoral Prostheses With a Stem System Based on the “Press-Fit” Principle: A Concept and a System of Implants: A Method and Its Results /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Béguec, Pierre Le (Editor), Sieber, Hans-Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Springer Paris, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Traumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Traumatic Surgery.

The author of this multimedia work sets himself an ambitious goal: to allow a surgeon to achieve the revision of a prosthesis without too many difficulties (or too much apprehension!) with guaranteed results if he follows the proposed method step by step, and this, even if he is not very experienced...

Table of Contents:

• The Concept of Press-Fit
• Choice of a Concept and an Implant
• The Concept of “Press-Fit”
• The PFM-Revision System
• Why Make These Choices?
• Preoperative Planning
• Radiological Analysis of the Femur
• Determining a Surgical Strategy
• Making a Preoperative Template
• Surgical Technique
• General Considerations
• Option 1: Femoral Flap
• Option 2: Endofemoral Approach
• Postoperative Care
• Conclusions
• The Results
• Patients and Type of Operation
• Clinical Results
• Preoperative Radiological Results
• Postoperative Radiological Results
• The Complications, Limitations and Indications of the “Press-Fit” Concept
• Conclusions
• Conclusions.