This is the 7- to 10-year follow-up (mean 9 years) of a Bristol RCT of 81 mobile, independent, cognitively intact patients over 60 with displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures. Patients were randomized to cemented THR or unipolar hemiarthroplasty on the same cemented polished tapered stem. The question was whether THR's 3-year functional advantage persisted.
This is the 7- to 10-year follow-up (mean 9 years) of a Bristol RCT of 81 mobile, independent, cognitively intact patients over 60 with displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures. Patients were randomized to cemented THR or unipolar hemiarthroplasty on the same cemented polished tapered stem. The question was whether THR's 3-year functional advantage persisted.