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    "Revisione critica delle vie di accesso all'anca negli interventi di sostituzione protesica"

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    The total hip replacement operation needs a specific surgical approach and a wide exposure of the hip joint. In the last century, many of them have been proposed for this type of operation, with variations that were more or less significant and important. With time only some types of surgical approaches have been selected and others have proved to be inadequate from the functional point of view. The authors analysis the most used surgical approaches to the hip joint in the last ten years, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each one

    "Difficoltà diagnostiche delle fratture da stress di calcagno. Presentazione di un caso"

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    A stress fracture is a disruption in the continuity of normal bone occuring without a specific history of trauma. The initial sympton is diffuse heel pain, meanwhile the initial X-rays cannot show any osseus abnormality. It is often necessary a total-body scintigram to determine the lesion. Also MRI is able to demonstrate the bony injury. The authors try to define right way for the diagnosis of stress fracture interpreting the data from each instrumental examination

    "Relazione tra osteoartrosi ed osteoporosi. Studio sperimentale e clinico."

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    The authors conducted two studies to demonstrate the presence of a relationship between osteoporosis and arthrosis: the first study was experimental involving thirty femoral heads removed during hip arthroplasty, and the second was a clinical study conducted on forty patients with coxarthrosis. The results obtained confirm how the presence of one of the two pathologies may prevent or delay occurrence of the other, and on this basis the authors review the literature. Finally, also taking into account the interpretations of other authors, possible hypotheses on the inverse relationship that links the two pathologies are propose
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