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A 73-year-old patient, whose hip was completely destroyed by pigmented villonodular synovitis, was successfully treated by a total prosthetic replacement of this articulation. The etiopathogenesis of the illness is uncertain. Its' localization in the hip is, fortunately, a rare occurrence. It can be responsible for frequently extensive articular destruction which is even more dramatic when it affects young patients, whose average age is 35. Only early diagnosis permits conservative surgical treatment: total synovectomy associated with curettage of the foyers of osteolysis and their filling with bone grafts. If the destructive lesions are too extensive, an arthrodesis or replacement arthroplasty are proposed.
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Descamps, F., Yasik, E., Hardy, D. et al. Pigmented villonodular synovitis of the hip. A case report and review of the literature. Clin Rheumatol 10, 184–190 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02207662
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