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Classical methods for pelvic osteotomy, such as those of Salter, Pemberton, Chiari, and Wagner, have been developed for reconstruction of the subluxed hip joint in children and young adults [5, 7, 12, 18, 25, 26, 30, 31, 37, 39]. Regarding pelvic osteotomy involving a middle-aged patient, however, there are not as many operation methods to consider, and it is difficult to choose the most suitable technique for alleviating advanced osteoarthritis [9, 18, 20, 26, 29, 32, 33, 35, 38]. Based on current practice, total hip replacement (THR) seems the accepted method, though it presents problems such as loosening, sinking, and infections; because of these factors physicians hesitate to recommend THR surgery, particularly if the patient is otherwise healthy and appears to have many good years ahead of him [1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 19, 21, 24, 28, 36]. As an alternative, we have been developing and improving the acetabular osteotomy, based on Tagawa's rotational acetabular osteotomy (RAO) [20, 35] and Wagner's acetabular osteotomy (type II) [38]. In this paper we present the results of a modified RAO operation performed on 50 middle-aged patients with an average age of 42 years and 2 months (31–61). The average follow-up was 3 years and 3 months (1–9 years). In 82% of patients the result was satisfactory (41 of 50 cases). A similar osteotomy technique has been used by Eppright [9] and Wagner [38]. We feel that our method achieves a more favorable result for an older patient with severe osteoarthritis, since both the surgery and the follow-up rehabilitation are more comprehensive. A modified acetabular osteotomy should not be regarded as merely an alternative to total hip replacement, but as the preferred choice for hip-joint reconstruction.
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Yano, H., Sano, S., Nagata, Y. et al. Modified rotational acetabular osteotomy (RAO) for advanced osteoarthritis of the hip joint in the middle-aged person First report. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 109, 121–125 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00440570
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