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Twenty patients (twenty-five hips) of total hip replacement were subjected to 99mTc-scintiscanning at 1-83 months postoperatively.
In normal cases an initially high uptake was found to decrease to a normal level up to 8 months postoperatively. In twelve patients (sixteen hips) with no pain, all but one hip had normal scintiscanning. In three patients (four hips) with pain about the hip on weight-bearing, however, all but one hip had abnormal scintiscanning.
It is suspected that 99mTc-scintiscanning is a supplementally useful aid for the detection of complications after total hip replacement.
