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Oussedik, Sam, Konan, Sujith and Haddad, Fares (2012) Study lacks rigour to determine choice of hip resurfacing or arthroplasty. BMJ, 344 (7857). e3667. doi:10.1136/bmj.e3667 ISSN 0959-535X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e3667
Abstract
Although Costa and colleagues’ prospective randomised study comparing total hip arthroplasty with resurfacing arthroplasty was laudable in orthopaedics, it lacks the necessary rigour and detail to reach useful conclusions.1
Costa and colleagues do not describe the surgical approach used, and this may have a clinically significant impact on outcome.2 At least one of them favours a trans-trochanteric approach, which …
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RD Surgery | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Arthroplasty | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ | ||||
Publisher: | BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0959-535X | ||||
Official Date: | 28 May 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | 344 | ||||
Number: | 7857 | ||||
Article Number: | e3667 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.e3667 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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