The late results of the prosthetic replacements of femoral head in Yamaguchi Red Cross Hospital during the period from January 1969 to December 1978 (10 years) are reported.
During this period, 159 cases of the fractures of the femoral neck and 29 cases of the femoral capital necrosis were treated.
Among these cases, 86 cases were treated by osteosynthesis and 57 cases were treated by prosthetic replacement. Fifty-four of the latter are followed up in this paper.