Severe osteolysis and soft tissue mass around total hip arthroplasty: Description of four cases and review of the literature with respect to clinico-radiographic and pathologic differential diagnosis

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-50

  Fabbri, N ^a   Rustemi, E ^a   Masetti, C ^a   Kreshak, J ^a   Gambarotti, M ^a   Vanel, D ^a   Toni, A ^a   Mercuri, M ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiosarcoma; Failure; Malignant tumor; Osteolysis; Total hip arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOSIDERIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEMIPELVECTOMY; HIP PAIN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PERIPROSTHETIC OSTEOLYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SWELLING; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOLYSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79953793738     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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