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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 86:1829 (2004)
© 2004 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letter to the Editor

Surgical Treatment of Limb-Length Discrepancy Following Total Hip Arthroplasty

Bipin Theruvil, MS, FRCS and Vikas Kapoor, MS, FRCS, (Tr and Orth)

Corresponding author:
Bipin Theruvil, MS, FRCS
10 Cedar Walk
Winchester SO22 5EU
United Kingdom
bipintheruvil@aol.com

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To The Editor:

We read with great interest the article "Surgical Treatment of Limb-Length Discrepancy Following Total Hip Arthroplasty" (2003;85:2310-7), by Parvizi et al. The study retrospectively reviewed the cases of twenty-one patients who had had revision total hip replacement for limb-length discrepancy. According to the authors, in six patients (Cases 2, 6, 9, 12, 13, and 20), the primary problem leading to limb-length inequality was excessive anteversion or retroversion of the acetabular component. In these patients, there was no obvious longitudinal malalignment of the cup or of the femoral component (Table I). All of these six patients underwent revision of the acetabular component alone, and the limb lengths equalized in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

William J. Hozack, MD and Javad Parvizi, MD

Corresponding author:
William J. Hozack, MD
Rothman Institute of Orthopaedics
925 Chestnut Street, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
rihip@aol.com


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