These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Radiation therapy in the prevention of periarticular, heterotopic ossification following implantation of a total hip endoprosthesis].
    Author: Goldmann AR, Seegenschmiedt M, Andreas P, Hohmann D, Sauer R, Beck H.
    Journal: Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb; 1993; 131(2):151-5. PubMed ID: 8506732.
    Abstract:
    From June 1988 to January 1991 the efficacy of a low-dose (5 x 2 Gy) versus a high-dose (10 x 2 Gy, resp. 5 x 3,5 Gy) prophylactic postoperative radiotherapy was assessed in a prospective randomized trial. 60 patients at the highest risk for formation of heterotopic ossification (HO) were included in this study, i.e. patients that presented already HO in the ipsi- or contralateral hip at the time of surgery. After both irradiation regimen the incidence and severity of HO was significantly less than without prophylaxis; there was no significant difference (regarding the severity of HO, the hip score (16) and the hip mobility) between the two regimen.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]