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Early post-operative femoral component loosening: poor cementing technique?

Descellement précoce du composant femoral d’une prothèse de hanche

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We report an extremely rare complication of early loosening of the femoral component as a result of debonding between the metal–cement interfaces presenting at 11th postoperative day. To the best of our knowledge debonding as a cause of early loosening has never been reported in literature. The postulated causes of this early debonding include either one or a combination of stem design, biomaterial and poor surgical technique.

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Nous rapportons une très rare complication consistant en un descellement précoce de la tige fémorale d’une prothèse de hanche résultant de l’absence de fixation au niveau de l’interface métal-ciment, survenu au 11 ème jour post-opératoire. Un tel cas n’a pas été retrouvé dans la littérature, du moins à notre connaissance. Les causes que l’on peut avancer pour expliquer cette désolidarisation métal-ciment sont multiparamétriques ; le design de la tige prothétique, les notions biomécaniques et l’insuffisance de la technique chirurgicale jouent un rôle.

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Iyer, K.M., Krishnan, S.P. Early post-operative femoral component loosening: poor cementing technique?. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 16, 52–54 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-005-0020-9

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