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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, Vol 69-B, Issue 2, 276-284
Copyright © 1987 by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery

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Distal femoral replacement by custom-made prostheses. Clinical follow-up and survivorship analysis

CF Bradish, HB Kemp, JT Scales, and JN Wilson

We report the long-term clinical follow-up and survivorship analysis of 40 distal femoral replacements performed between 1964 and 1980 for traumatic, locally aggressive and malignant conditions. Custom-made prostheses with fully-constrained knee joints were used to replace a mean of 42% of the length of the femur. Survivorship analysis showed a cumulative success rate of 80% at eight years, with no subsequent deterioration at 18 years. Clinical assessment revealed 78% excellent or good results. Failure was due to infection in three cases, and in two to fracture of a now-outmoded femoral stem.


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