Blood loss in the minimally invasive posterior approach to total hip arthroplasty: a comparative study

AIMS: Our primary aimwas to evaluate whether there is really less bleeding in patients for whom the minimally invasive posterior approach is used in comparison with the direct lateral approachfor primary total hip arthroplasty. Our secondary aim was to evaluate the clinical functional results after...

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Main Authors: Jose Ricardo Negreiros Vicente, Alberto Tesconi Croci, Olavo Pires de Camargo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier España 2008-01-01
Series:Clinics
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1807-59322008000300011