Modern Hip Resurfacing

Modern Hip Resurfacing
ISBN-10
184800088X
ISBN-13
9781848000889
Category
Medical
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2009-02-02
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Derek J. W. McMinn

Description

Hip replacement surgery is a radical and traumatic procedure that has enormous disadvantages to the patient in terms of postoperative mobility and morbidity. Hip resurfacing is a more conservative approach resulting in less of the patient’s hip and femur being lost, which has great advantages to a younger patient group. The author of Hip Resurfacing is the world’s leading authority on this surgery, making this the definitive resource in hip resurfacing

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