Radiation-blocking shields to localize periarticular radiation precisely for prevention of heterotopic bone formation around uncemented total hip arthroplasties

Journal Article · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1097/00003086-199008000-00025· OSTI ID:6520859

Jasty, M; Schutzer, S; Tepper, J; Willett, C; Stracher, M A; Harris, W H ^[1]

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1. Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)

Sixteen patients (18 hips) were treated with localized radiation therapy limited to periarticular regions surrounding the femoral neck by shielding the prosthesis and the adjacent regions to prevent heterotopic bone formation around the uncemented prosthesis. All hips received 1500 rads. Eight of these hips were irradiated after excising severe heterotopic bone, five because they developed extensive heterotopic ossification in the opposite hip, and five others because they were considered to be at high risk for developing heterotopic ossification. Only two of the 18 hips developed a small amount of heterotopic bone after localized periarticular radiation. All wounds healed primarily. No progressive radiolucencies developed at the bone-prosthesis interface. There was only one trochanteric nonunion of six trochanteric osteotomies. Localized periarticular radiation therapy with precision shielding of the prosthetic components and adjacent skeletal structures is an effective means to prevent heterotopic bone formation around cementless total hip arthroplasties. It also has the advantage of not adversely affecting the healing of the trochanteric osteotomy.

• OSTI ID: 6520859
• Journal Information: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research; (USA), Vol. 257; ISSN 0009-921X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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