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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 81:1044-45 (1999)
© 1999 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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Bruce R.T. Love, F.R.A.C.S., Charles F. Burt, M.D. and Kevin L. Garvin, M.D.

TO THE EDITOR:

I read with interest "A Femoral Component Inserted without Cement in Total Hip Arthroplasty. A Study of the Tri-Lock Component with an Average Ten-Year Duration of Follow-up" (80-A: 952–960, July 1998), by Burt et al., and I would like to comment on the nomenclature that is currently in vogue with regard to total hip arthroplasty. It seems curious that a paper should be given a title or that a prosthesis should be described with negative terminology. I refer to the use of "without cement" in this title and "cementless" in much of the orthopaedic literature.

While cement was the mainstay of early joint-replacement procedures, there is now a large volume of literature describing components that are designed to be fixed by means of bone ingrowth or bone ongrowth. Indeed, numerous prostheses that are currently in use are intended to be stabilized by means of bone ongrowth rather . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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