Francesco Castagnini, Barbara Bordini, Makiko Yorifuji, Federico Giardina, Simone Natali, Francesco Pardo, Francesco Traina
OBJECTIVE: Highly porous titanium cups have been recently introduced, with contradictive outcomes. A retrospective consecutive case series involving bilateral metachronous total hip arthoplasties (THAs) performed with two different cups, Fixa (F) and Fixa Tipor (T) (Adler Ortho, Milan), and the same stem, was evaluated. T sockets, manufactured using electron beam melting, were supposed to prove superior in terms of clinical results, survival rates and radiographic parameters in comparison to hydroxyapatite coated F cups with conventional porosity...
May 13, 2019: Medical Principles and Practice: International Journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre