Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 145-153, February 2006

Total joint replacement in osteoarthritis

  • Jeffrey N Katz, MD, MS (Associate Professor of Medicine and Orthopoaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Section of Clinical Sciences)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationDivision of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Tel.: +1 617 732 5356.

Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Surgical approaches have been developed for most of the sites of osteoarthritis, including the carpal metacarpal and first metatarsal phalangeal joint, the hips, knees, shoulders, ankles and elbows. This chapter will address surgical options for advanced osteoarthritis of the hips and knees and will focus primarily on total hip and knee replacement.

Key words: total knee replacement, total hip replacement, epidemiology, osteoarthritis,mortality

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PII: S1521-6942(05)00104-X

doi:10.1016/j.berh.2005.09.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 145-153, February 2006

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