• DOI:10.1148/RADIOLOGY.173.1.2675184
Corpus ID: 13551367

Cemented total hip prosthesis: radiographic and scintigraphic evaluation.

@article{Aliabadi1989CementedTH,
  title={Cemented total hip prosthesis: radiographic and scintigraphic evaluation.},
  author={P. Aliabadi and S. Tumeh and B. Weissman and B. Mcneil},
  journal={Radiology},
  year={1989},
  volume={173 1},
  pages={
          203-6
        }
}

P. Aliabadi, S. Tumeh, +1 author B. Mcneil

Published 1989

Medicine

Radiology

Conventional radiographs, technetium-99m bone scans, and gallium-67 scans were reviewed in 44 patients who had undergone cemented total hip joint replacement and were imaged because of suspicion of prosthesis loosening or infection. A complete radiolucent line of 2 mm or wider along the bone-cement interface or metal-cement lucency on conventional radiographs was used as the criterion for prosthetic loosening with or without infection and proved to be 54% sensitive and 96% specific… CONTINUE READING

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