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. 2006 Feb;2(1):7-11.
doi: 10.1007/s11420-005-0134-y.

Review: posterior soft tissue repair in primary total hip arthroplasty

F Bottner  1 , P M Pellicci
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Review: posterior soft tissue repair in primary total hip arthroplasty

F Bottner et al. HSS J. 2006 Feb.
No abstract available

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Figures

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Fig. 1
After exposure of the short external rotators (*piriformis tendon)
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Fig. 2
Ethibond tagging sutures are placed in the short external rotators
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Fig. 3
The capsule (*) is released closed to its insertion at the femoral neck
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Fig. 4
The proximal drill hole is oriented towards the piriformis fossa
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Fig. 5
Tagging sutures in the short external rotators and in the posterior capsule in line with the pull through sutures in the greater Trochanter drill holes
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After repair of the short external rotators. The quadratus femoris muscle is elevated and reattached to the Vastus lateralis
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Fig. 7
After repair of the posterior capsule, external rotators, quadratus femoris, and the overlying soft tissues
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