Arthroplasty ...........................................................................................................................2 Biomaterials ......................................................................................................................... 14 Cartilage Repair ................................................................................................................... 16 Evidence Based Orthopaedics ........................................................................................... 17 General Orthopaedics ......................................................................................................... 18 Infection ............................................................................................................................... 24 Minimally Invasive Surgery ................................................................................................. 26 Navigation ............................................................................................................................ 28 Osteoporosis ....................................................................................................................... 29 Paediatrics ........................................................................................................................... 31 Spine ................................................................................................................................. 33 Sports Medicine ................................................................................................................... 38 Trauma ................................................................................................................................. 42 Tumours ............................................................................................................................... 51 Index of Authors .................................................................................................................. 55 Arthroplasty Ankle / Foot 26151 MID-TERM RESULTS OF ARTHROPLASTY OF I.MTP JOINT BY SYSTEM TOEFIT-PLUS Miroslav LISY, Miloslav PINK, Martin SKLADAL (Czech Republic) Elbow 24526 FASCIAL INTERPOSITION ARTHROPLASTY – A DYING ART Ratna JOHARI, Amit SWAMY, Shalin MAHESHWARI, Abhijeet SHROFF (India) Hand / Wrist 23832 INTERPOSITION ARTHROPLASTY OF THE 1ST CARPAL-METACARPAL JOINT USING SUTURE ANCHOR AND POLYDIOXANONE RIBBON Steven BORLAND, Mohan RAO, John FRASER (United Kingdom) 26451 TOTAL DRUJ – ARTHROPLASTY AS SALVAGE FOR SALVAGE PROCEDURES, 4-YEAR REPORT Peter AXELSSON (Sweden) Hip 22918 CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF 300 CEMENTLESS HIP PROSTHESIS: AVERAGE SEVEN AND A HALF YEAR CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC FOLLOW-UP OF THE "NATURAL HIP" Thomas PACE, James KAREGEANNES, Michael PALMER, Rebecca SNIDER, Stephanie TANNER (United States) 23027 WITH CONSTRAINED LINERS OR DUAL MOBILITY OUTCOMES OF TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY ARE SIMILAR FOR PATIENTS WITH DISPLACED FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES AND OSTEOARTHRITIS Philippe HERNIGOU, Charle Henri FLOUZAT LACHIANETTE, Paolo FILIPPINI, Alexandre POIGNARD (France) 23164 LEG LENGTH DISCREPANCY IN CEMENTLESS TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY Christopher PECK, Karan MALHOTRA, Winston KIM (United Kingdom) 23225 ROLE OF LARGE FEMORAL HEADS ( ≥ 36 MM) ON DISLOCATION RATES Chitranjan RANAWAT (United States) 23236 A NOVEL EVALUATION OF IN VIVO EDGE LOADING DURING FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY IN METAL-ON-METAL HIP RESURFACING PATIENTS WITH PSEUDOTUMOURS Young-Min KWON¹, Stephen MELLON², Harinderjit S. GILL², David MURRAY² ¹(United States), ²(United Kingdom) 23266 DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN RESULT OF THA Firooz MADADI, Manuchehr VAHID FARAHMANDI, Morteza KAZEMI, Firoozeh MADADI, Alireza EAJAZI (Iran) 23324 WEAR OF CERAMIC-ON-METAL TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENTS. A HIP SIMULATOR STUDY J. Philippe KRETZER, Eike JAKUBOWITZ, Robert SONNTAG, Horst SCHLEMMER, Jörn REINDERS (Germany) 23403 USE OF ULTRASOUND IN DIAGNOSIS OF ADVERSE REACTIONS TO METAL DEBRIS (ARMD) FOLLOWING METAL ON METAL HIP REPLACEMENT Kiran SINGISETTI, P. RAJU, A. NARGOL (United Kingdom) 2 23441 THE USE AND COMPLIANCE OF RIVAROXABAN FOR THROMBOPROPHYLAXIS IN ELECTIVE HIP ARTHROPLASTY Sioned PHILLIPS, Benedict ROGERS, Khalid DRABU (United Kingdom) 23617 LONG-TERM RESULTS FOR UNCEMENTED TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY WITH THE CLS SPOTORNO SYSTEM Henk VERMEER, Pieter Bas DE WITTE, Ronald BRAND, Lex BARNAART (Netherlands) 23652 THE VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF THE DUTCH SELF-REPORTED HARRIS HIP SCORE AFTER TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY Huub VAN DER HEIDE, Bart BOESENACH, Hakim BENALI, Rob NELISSEN (Netherlands) 23663 MID TERM CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF REVISION TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY WITH CEMENTLESS STEM Tiberiu BATAGA, Simona BATAGA, Remus OPRIS, Arpad SOLYOM (Romania) 23664 ROUTINE USE OF ANTICOAGULANT CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS IN JOINT REPLACEMENT ARTHROPLASTY – DOUBLE OR SINGLE EDGED DEADLY WEAPON? TIME TO WAKE UP! Chandra YADAV, Ashok KUMAR, Sameer NARANJE, Shah KHAN (India) 23666 COMPARISON OF PERI-OPERATIVE MORBIDITY FOLLOWING PRIMARY TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT WITH CEMENTED AND UNCEMENTED PINNACLE® PROSTHESIS Oliver BAILEY, Terrance SAVARIDAS, Drummond MANSBRIDGE (United Kingdom) 23707 OPTIMAL BEARING SURFACES FOR TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT IN THE YOUNG, ACTIVE PATIENTS Vijay SHETTY (India) 23717 FOUR YEAR FOLLOW UP RESULTS OF PINNACLE METAL ON METAL TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT AT A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL Sandeep TIWARI, Umesh NAGARE, Govind SINGHANIA (United Kingdom) 23740 THE EFFECT OF FEMORAL COMPONENT ALIGNMENT WITH THE BIRMINGHAM MID-HEAD RESECTION Arthroplasty James P. WADDELL, Michael OLSEN, Peter M. LEWIS, Emil H. SCHEMITSCH (Canada) 23745 METAL SENSITIVITY AFTER ARTHROPLASTY – A CONCERN REVISITED S. THOMAS, R. DHARMARAJAN (United Kingdom) 23752 HOW USEFUL IS THE INTRAOPERATIVE AUTOTRANSFUSION SYSTEM IN TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY? – A COMPARATIVE STUDY Christos LYRTZIS, Lazaros OIKONOMIDIS, Mihail MPOZOGLOU, Miltiadis AVRAMIDIS, Christos KRISTALLIS (Greece) 23764 DOES "QUANTITATIVE MARROW ASPIRATE" FROM "SUPEROLATERAL PART OF FEMUR HEAD" PREDICT FEMORAL HEAD OSTEONECROSIS? Sameer AGARWAL, Sujit TRIPATHY, Ramesh SEN (India) 23783 THE EFFECT OF ACETABULAR CUP PLACEMENT ON HIP JOINT FUNCTION OF CROWE TYPE 3 AND 4 HIPS Mehmet BALIOGLU, Devrim OZER, Umit AYKUT (Turkey) 23822 HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS ELIGIBLE FOR TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT Ola ROLFSON, Sofia LÖFVENDAHL, Göran GARELLICK (Sweden) 23866 CLINICAL RESULTS OF MINIMALLY INVASIVE TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY VIA THE ANTEROLATERAL APPROACH IN THE SUPINE POSITION Hiroshi KITAHARA, Nobuhiro YUASA (Japan) 3 23886 BONE REMODELING IN PROXIMAL HA-COATED VERSUS UNCOATED CEMENTLESS SL-PLUS® FEMORAL COMPONENTS. A 5-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY Wolfram STEENS, Jan AHRENS, Christian GÖTZE (Germany) 23899 A PROSPECTIVE TWO-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF THE CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF A NEW UNCEMENTED TOTAL HIP STEM Philipp BERGSCHMIDT, Rainer BADER, Ellenrieder MARTIN, Ralf SKRIPITZ, Susanne FINZE, Isabella TOKAR, Günther KUNDT, Wolfram MITTELMEIER (Germany) 23965 THE INFLUENCE OF THE SHELF AGEING OF GAMMA-IRRADIATION STERILIZED ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE IN BIPOLAR HEMIARTHROPATHY FOR HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS Katsutoshi HARA, Nobuhiro KAKU, Masashi MIYAZAKI, Hiroshi TSUMURA (Japan) 24047 THE S-ROM STEM IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLY OPERATED NON UNIONS OF SUB TROCHANTERIC FRACTURES – A PROSPECTIVE STUDY Buddhadeb CHATTERJEE (India) 24048 RESULTS OF TWO-STAGE TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT IN ADVANCED TUBERCULOUS ARTHRITIS OF THE HIP Buddhadeb CHATTERJEE (India) 24083 A NEW CONCEPT OF CEMENTLESS STEM FIXATION IN TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY: A RADIOSTEREOMETRIC ANALYSIS Aljosa MATEJCIC¹, Ante MULJACIC¹, Slobodan TEPIC², William Andrew HODGE³, Henrik MALCHAU³, Stephen BRESINA², Dinko VIDOVIC¹ ¹(Croatia), ²(Switzerland), ³(United States) 24091 HIP HEMIARTHROPLASTY IN FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES – UNIPOLAR VERSUS BIPOLAR – A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY Narayana Prasad KARAKKAD, Kishan PARALAYA (India) 24097 STEM REVISION OF THE HIP USING AN UNCEMENTED MODULUS SYSTEM AND ACCORD PLATE Fujio HIGUCHI, Yumiko ISHIBASHI, Tokiko SIMOYAMA, Takahiro OKAWA, Shinichiro KUME, Masafumi GOTOH, Yoshida SHIRO, Kyoko ARAKI (Japan) 24140 DOES THE POSITION OF THE HIP INFLUENCE MEASUREMENTS OF WEAR? Georgios DIGAS¹, Johan KÄRRHOLM², Per-Erik JOHANSSON² ¹(Greece), ²(Sweden) 24152 CUP POSITIONING AT A TERTIARY HOSPITAL: RISK FACTORS FOR MALPOSITIONING Henrik MALCHAU, Mark CALLANAN, Bryan JARRETT, Charles BRAGDON, Andrew FREIBERG, Harry RUBASH (United States) 24166 RESULTS OF LARGE DIAMETER HEAD IN TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY IN INDIAN PATIENTS Chandra YADAV, Ashok KUMAR, Shah KHAN, H.L. NAG, Shishir RASTOGI (India) 24208 PREOPERATIVE BONE QUALITY AS A RISK FACTOR OF UNCEMENTED ENDOPROSTHETIC COMPONENTS FAILURE Istvan GERGELY, Tudor Sorin POP, Octav RUSSU, Sandor ZUH, Ors NAGY (Romania) 24209 PRIMARY AND REVISION HIP ARTHROPLASTY: QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER 4 YEARS Istvan GERGELY, Ors NAGY, Tudor Sorin POP, Octav RUSSU, Sandor ZUH (Romania) 24244 STABILITY OF UNCEMENTED ACETABULAR CUPS – WITH AND WITHOUT BONE GRAFT Saqeb MIRZA, Vitali GORIAINOV, Andy JONES, Adam BRISCOE, Andrew NEW, Douglas DUNLOP (United Kingdom) 4 24285 LOW VALIDITY OF THE CHARNLEY CLASSIFICATION USED AS A COMORBIDITY INDEX Kristian BJORGUL¹, Wendy M. NOVICOFF², Sven Ture ANDERSEN¹, Knut BREVIG¹, Einer Mogens WIIG¹, Ola ÅHLUND¹ ¹(Norway), ²(United States) 24290 PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT Plamen KINOV, Encho YANKOV (Bulgaria) 24322 CAN RISEDRONATE GIVEN ONCE A WEEK FOR