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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Major and minor complications

From: Promising medium-term results of anterior approach with an anatomical short stem in primary hip arthroplasty

Complications

 

Major complications (stem revision)

Cortical perforations

Subsidence

Aseptic loosening

Periprosthetic fractures (ORIF)

Minor complications

Calcar fractures (intraoperative cerclage)

Subsidence

 Conservative treatment ≤ 3 mm

 Conservative treatment > 3 mm

Early infection

3 (1.2%)

1

1

1

2

18 (7.5%)

5 (2.1%)

3

11 (4.6%)

3

1