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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 85:2069 (2003)
© 2003 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Editorial

Minimally Invasive Surgery

James D. Heckman, MD, Editor-in-Chief

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With this issue and its Supplement, The Journal for the first time presents peer-reviewed information about the rapidly evolving modifications of the approach to total hip arthroplasty known as minimally invasive surgery. Are these approaches better? Do they work? Should they be generally adopted by all orthopaedic surgeons? As of yet, we do not know the definitive answers to these questions, and we will not know them for many years. Only with adequate followup and use of patient-based outcomes measures in studies of large numbers of patients will the answers be found.

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