Erschienen in:
08.06.2016 | Letter to the Editor
Letter to the Editor: Does Degenerative Lumbar Spine Disease Influence Femoroacetabular Flexion in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty?
verfasst von:
Ping-Heng Lan, MD, PhD, Jun Zhang, MD, Zhi-Heng Liu, MD, Hai-Qiang Wang, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 8/2016
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We have read the study by Esposito and colleagues with great interest. We would like to applaud the authors for meticulously linking lumbar disc degeneration (LDD) with THA. After analyzing EOS spine-to-ankle lateral radiographs of 325 patients undergoing THA, they found a slight difference in hip flexion between patients with LDD and those without LDD. Their findings indicate that arthroplasty surgeons should take LDD into account when performing THA. …