Modelling normal and pathologic hips
Prosthetic hip surgery involves the accurate of positioning or prosthesis components according to an ideal goal. Clinicians do no agree about what is the ideal position of the hip. In order to enrich this debate a double study has been undertaken: - 200 CT abdominal scans of patients without hip pathology have been processed in order to determine potential invariants concerning the hip orientation w.r.t. the Lewinneck plane. Finally 150 of the 200 scans have been exploiting giving information about 300 hips. - A second study aims at comparing two series of patients having prosthesis: with (18) and without (27) a dislocation. The conclusions of these two studies are given in Dr Blendea PhD thesis
Reference : S. Blendea, J. Troccaz, P. Merloz. The orientation of the native acetabulum: a prospective 300 cases CT-based study. CAOS Hong-Kong, 4-7 juin 2008
Collaborations : Grenoble University Hospital (Pr Merloz – Orthopaedics and traumatology dept)
Status : FINISHED Ph.D. thesis of Dr Sorin Blendea defended in 2012.
Contact : jocelyne.troccaz@imag.fr