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Mechanisms of bone loss associated with total hip replacement
J J Jacobs1, D R Sumner, J O Galante
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
The Orthopedic Clinics of North America
|October 1, 1993
Abstract:
The pathogenesis of bone loss after total hip arthroplasty is discussed. Two separate processes are considered: adaptive bone remodeling ("stress-shielding") and osteolysis. Clinical and experimental studies that provide the basis for current and future strategies to minimize the occurrence and severity of these phenomena are summarized.