[Coxarthrosis: clinical aspects, diagnosis and treatment]

Based on a large clinical material the authors analyze the causes of the development of secondary coxarthrosis, suggest new methods of the surgical treatment of the disease, worked out at the Pathology Clinic of Large Joints, Prof. M. I. Sitenko Kharkov Research Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology, with regard to the shortcomings of the common treatment methods. The term "hyperplastic coxarthrosis" is introduced, the treatment method for that pathology is offered. The problem of further studies and of the design of new methods for the treatment of chronic nonspecific coxitis is under discussion.