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Treatment of an old infection in a total hip replacement with an interim spacer prosthesis
K W Zilkens1, H R Casser, J Ohnsorge
1Orthopedic Surgery Department, Medical Faculty, University of Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
When treating a septic hip-joint prosthesis with bone loss of the proximal femur secondary to osteomyelitis, we implanted a specially designed prosthesis to act as a local antibiotic and spacer between the acetabulum and femur until the infection abated. Arthroplasty could then be carried out with no trouble and there was no recurrence of infection.