Routine recovery room radiographs after total hip arthroplasty: Ineffective for screening and unsuitable as baseline for longitudinal follow-up evaluation

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-317

  Mulhall, Kevin J ^a,b   Masterson, Eric ^a   Burke, Thomas E ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedics   (Ireland)

^b NONE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Check radiographs; Dislocation; Follow up; Recovery room; Screening; Total hip arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILM; FOLLOW UP; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOVERY ROOM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1942422282     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arth.2003.08.021     Document Type: Article

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