Total Hip Arthroplasty in a Low-Income Country

Total Hip Arthroplasty in a Low-Income Country

Background:. We describe our 10-year experience performing total hip arthroplasty (THA) in patients enrolled in the National Joint Registry of the Malawi Orthopaedic Association. Methods:. Eighty-three THAs were performed in 70 patients (40 male and 30 female) with a mean age of 52 years (range, 18...

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Main Authors:	Simon Matthew Graham, MBChB, MRCS, MSc(Res), FRCS, Nicholas Howard, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, FRCS, Chipiliro Moffat, Nicholas Lubega, MBChB, MMed(Ortho), FCS(ECSA), MBA, Nyengo Mkandawire, BMBS, FRCS, MCh(Orth), FCS(ECSA), William J. Harrison, MA(Oxon), FRCS(Tr&Orth)
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wolters Kluwer 2019-12-01
Series:	JBJS Open Access
Online Access:	http://journals.lww.com/jbjsoa/fulltext/10.2106/JBJS.OA.19.00027

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