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Ipsilateral Secondary Hip Osteoarthritis and Leg Length Discrepancy: Treated Simultaneously with Total Hip Replacement and Motorized Lengthening

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Leg length discrepancy (LLD) after total hip replacement (THR) has been associated with gait disturbance, back pain, and patient dissatisfaction (Maloney and Keeney, J Arthroplasty 19:108–110, 2004). LLD can be minimized with meticulous preoperative planning and its execution. Since significant acute lengthening of the leg over 3–4 cm can be a contributory factor in the development of nerve palsy, LLD cannot be safely eliminated in some cases. This section presents a case of 42-year-old male with right-sided secondary hip osteoarthritis and 8 cm femoral shortening resulting from Perthes disease plus constitutional LLD who was treated with noncemented THR and motorized lengthening nail insertion at the same setting. Remaining LLD after THR was corrected by distal femoral lengthening postoperatively.

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  1. Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, Harbiye mh, Macka cd, no:3, Sisli, 80200, Istanbul, Turkey

    Metin Kucukkaya & Abdullah Gogus

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  1. Metin Kucukkaya
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Correspondence to Metin Kucukkaya .

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  1. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

    S. Robert Rozbruch

  2. Shriner's Hospital for Children, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Reggie Hamdy

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Kucukkaya, M., Gogus, A. (2014). Ipsilateral Secondary Hip Osteoarthritis and Leg Length Discrepancy: Treated Simultaneously with Total Hip Replacement and Motorized Lengthening. In: Rozbruch, S., Hamdy, R. (eds) Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02767-8_204-1

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