Total hip arthroplasty was done in thirty-three patients who had had
previous surgical attempts at arthrodesis of the hip. The arthrodesis had
failed in nineteen patients, and the other fourteen patients had fused hips
with symptoms in the knee and lower back. Thirty-one of the patients had
satisfactory functional ability after total hip arthroplasty after one to
three and one-half years' follow-up. The two patients in whom the procedure
failed had complicating infections.