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A large lumbar hernia presenting as a flank mass after total hip arthroplasty
R Steinfeld1, R T Trousdale, D R Farley
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
The Journal of Arthroplasty
|December 12, 2001
Abstract:
Soft tissue swelling occasionally can be seen about the incision after a total hip arthroplasty. We report a case of a lateral wall hernia occurring immediately after a total hip arthroplasty that presented as a mass over the proximal aspect of the hip incision.