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Disarticulation for Failed Surgical Procedures About the Hip

Authors: LEE T. FORD MD, BARRETT K. HOLDER MD

Abstract

Complications following treatment of disease about the hip may render a limb so nonfunctional that the patient is confined to bed or a wheelchair. Admitting therapeutic defeat and knowing “how and when to quit” may be wise-Four chronically disabled patients released from their confinement and rehabilitated by disarticulation of the hip are described.

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