TY - JOUR AU - Fujii, Hideki AU - Otani, Takuya AU - Kawaguchi, Yasuhiko AU - Hayama, Tetsuo AU - Abe, Toshiomi AU - Takahashi, Motoi AU - Saito, Mitsuru PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/01 TI - Preventing postoperative prosthetic joint dislocation by repairing obturator externus in total hip arthroplasty performed via the posterior approach JO - Arthroplasty SP - 33 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - In total hip arthroplasty performed via the posterior approach, repairing the posterior soft tissues is a conventional method for preventing postoperative prosthetic joint dislocation. The aim of this study was to verify whether obturator externus repair played the main role and what was the mechanism of the repair preventing the dislocation. SN - 2524-7948 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s42836-020-00054-4 DO - 10.1186/s42836-020-00054-4 ID - Fujii2020 ER -