- See:
Total Hip Replacement Menu:
- Discussion:
- stress transfer to femur is desirable because it provides physiologic stimulus for maintaining bone
mass & preventing disuse osteoporosis;
- if prosthesis has a collar that is seated on the cut surface of the neck or if there is a layer of cement
in contact with the bone and undersurface of the collar, there will be axial loading of the bone;
- although the role of a collar in preventing loosening of a cemented femoral component has not clearly established,
any loading of proximal medial neck is likely to decrease bone resorption and thereby reduce stresses
in the proximal cement;
- collar also serves as a simple means of determining depth of insertion of femoral component, since vision
is temporarily obscured by extrusion of the cement;
- Collar in Austin Moore Prosthesis:
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Calcar Pivot: (distal toggle) is frequent complication of a non cemented collared prosthesis;
- only true calcar support prosthesis is the old Moore implant, whose stem was too small to provide canal fill in most cases;
- designed for patients w/ 1/2 to 3/4 inches of remaining femoral neck above the lesser trochanter;
- collar of Austin Moore prosthesis is more transverse than that of the Thompson prosthesis,
a fact that increases ability of neck to receive the compression stresses inserted on to it;
- Moore initially desinged his prosthesis with fenestrations in the stem in an effort to induce
"self locking" and bony ingrowth;
The effects of the collar on total hip femoral component subsidence.
Is it advantageous to strengthen the cement-metal interface and use a collar for cemented femoral components of total hip replacements
A prospective randomized study of a collar versus a collarless femoral prosthesis.
The use of a collar and precoating on cemented femoral stems is unnecessary and detrimental.
