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Mark G. Lazansky, MD
New York

JAMA. 1970;213(6):1040.

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To the Editor.—

How disappointing that the first article in THE JOURNAL (212:611, 1970) to describe the striking progress in hip reconstruction being made with total hip replacement by Charnley, McKee, and Watson-Farrar and Ring in England should contain many inaccuracies.

Picking only the most glaring of the errors in the article, I point out for your readers:

1. The statement that Girdlestone's operation "may be expected to make weight bearing on the affected side impossible" is patently false and indicates that the author has had little occasion to observe patients who have had the procedure performed. While it scarcely leaves an elegant hip (rather one characterized by shortening of one to two inches, a pronounced limp, and need for a cane, though generally pain-free and mobile), weight bearing is hardly impossible.
   
2. Charnley's present series of total hip replacements is closer to 4,000 than 8,000.
   
3. The Charnley
   

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