Discussion The intervertebral disk can be considered an osmotic sys-tern. Because of the
breakdown of macromolecules during the fourth and fifth decades of life, the number of …

A random study of the finger joints, hips, and knees of 500 hospitalized Hong Kong southern
Chinese older than fifty-four years, revealed increased hip-joint mobility when compared …

Primary osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip has a distinct etiology and epidemiology compared with
other types of arthropathy in the hip joint. Arthritis of the hip can be secondary to conditions …

OBJECTIVES--To compare the incidence of all total hip arthroplasty, and total hip arthroplasty
for primary coxarthrosis, among the Asian, black, Hispanic, and white populations living in …

A method of percutaneous aspiration of the nucleus pulposus of lumbar disks is described
as performed in four pigs and three cadavers. Through a lateral oblique percutaneous …

Pelvic radiographs of 200 consecutive Japanese Oriental patients who were admitted for
hip surgery at the Hospital of Kobe University in Japan were compared with those of 199 …

Parenteral prophylactic antibiotics are now a routine part of most clean orthopaedic procedures
since so many animal and clinical studies have shown a reduced infection rate with their …

… Hoaglund, Franklin T. MD 1 … Hoaglund FT, Steinbach LS . Primary osteoarthritis of the
hip: etiology and epidemiology. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. … Takeyama A, Naito M …

The left knees of twelve mongrel puppies, eight weeks old, were injected, daily for twelve to
eighteen weeks with autologous preserved whole blood or blood and aqueous penicillin. …

Four hundred and eight siblings, parents, and grandparents of seventy-eight children from
the New England area who had congenital dysplasia of the hip were evaluated, by clinical …