Revision hip replacement by minimally invasive technique with anterior approach: three case study

Abstract

Revision total hip arthroplasty is becoming more and more popular, the surgical approach can vary based on anatomy, patient position, experience, and surgeon habits. The posterior incision is often chosen by surgeons while the current literature has very few articles related to revision total hip arthroplasty using anterior incision. In this paper, we present 3 clinical cases revision total hip arthroplasty using minimally invasive anterior incision technique for the 3 patients who had been treated the primary total hip replacement combined with the disaster complications to emphasize the feasibility of this approach and re evaluate the clinical, x-ray imaging and patient satisfaction.

Keywords

• revision hip arthroplasty
• anterior approach
• mini-invasive surgery