Case Control Study
Copyright ©The Author(s) 2017. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Orthop. Jan 18, 2017; 8(1): 30-35
Published online Jan 18, 2017. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v8.i1.30
Digital templating in total hip arthroplasty: Additional anteroposterior hip view increases the accuracy
Sophia K Stigler, Franz J Müller, Sebastian Pfaud, Michael Zellner, Bernd Füchtmeier
Sophia K Stigler, Franz J Müller, Sebastian Pfaud, Michael Zellner, Bernd Füchtmeier, Clinic for Trauma, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, 93049 Regensburg, Germany
Author contributions: Stigler SK collected, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript; Müller FJ contributed in final editing of the manuscript; Stigler SK, Müller FJ, Pfaud S, Zellner M corrected the manuscript; Füchtmeier B designed and supervised the study, acquired the data; all authors approved the definite version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: Institutional review board approval.
Informed consent statement: An informed consent statement was given.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. For this work no benefits in any form were received.
Data sharing statement: No data sharing is required.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. med. Franz Müller, habil., Clinic for Trauma, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder, Prüfeninger Str. 86, 93049 Regensburg, Germany. franz.mueller@barmherzige-regensburg.de
Telephone: +49-941-3692251 Fax: +49-941-3692255
Received: July 17, 2016
Peer-review started: July 18, 2016
First decision: September 2, 2016
Revised: September 21, 2016
Accepted: December 1, 2016
Article in press: December 2, 2016
Published online: January 18, 2017
Processing time: 176 Days and 23.2 Hours
Core Tip

Core tip: Preoperative planning is an essential practice carried out prior to total hip arthroplasty (THA). However, the accuracy of digital preoperative planning in THA is variable and often lacks sufficient precision. Our prospective study analysed that preoperative planning with an additional antero-posterior hip view significantly increased the exact component correlation when compared to pelvic overview only for both the acetabular cup and the femoral.