Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3251852 | Journal of Orthopaedics | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
IntroductionSurgical complications may be avoided by preoperative templating in trauma hemiarthroplasty.Materials and methodsDigital templates for the Stryker™ range of Thompson's prostheses were created and fifty trauma patients that had undergone cemented hemiarthroplasty were retrospectively templated by 2 blinded surgeons.ResultsTemplating for prosthesis size was highly accurate with excellent Inter and intra-observer reproducibility. Sensitivity for identifying femoral canals too narrow for a Thompsons was 100%.ConclusionsTemplating is a valuable tool and should be standard practice in trauma. We have demonstrated that it is possible to generate custom templates to allow accurate templating.
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Authors
Robert Nicholas Green, Paul R.P. Rushton, Derek Kramer, Dominic Inman, Paul F. Partington,