Letter to the editor: ‘The history of the development of the regular straight stem in hip arthroplasty’

Abstract

In the article titled ‘The history of the development of the regular straight stem in hip arthroplasty’, Wellauer et al. published in this journal, the history of femoral stems in total hip arthroplasty (THA) is presented very clearly (1). Of the different types of stems, the authors describe the global tissue-sparing (GTS) stem.