Evaluation of the results of the different types of total knee arthroplasty in arthritis

ABSTRACT

Sixty-one patients with ankylosing spondylitis who underwent 104 total hip replacements were studied. Affection of the hip was assessed preoperatively. All cases were done by a modified posterior approach. A Charnley prosthesis was used in most of them. The postoperative assessment showed excellent and good results in 75% as well as fair and poor results in 25%