Roentgenographic densitometry of bone adjacent to a femoral prosthesis.

A digital imaging method was developed to quantitate the stress-related changes in roentgenographic bone density after total hip arthroplasty. A technique termed "histogram-directed equalization" was used to compensate for differences in postimaging data caused by the effects of variable quality obtained from ten patients. Quantitative change due to variation in delivered energy was decreased by 7% for roentgenograms obtained with a 2 kVp variation and 31% for roentgenograms obtained with a 4 kVp variation. The method allowed the authors to accurately describe the changes observed on annual postoperative roentgenograms obtained over the past decade. The utility of the method was demonstrated in 15 of the senior author's long-term cases treated with fully porous-coated implants. These cases were divided into two groups based on the diameter of the prosthetic stem implanted in each case. Five patients were grouped with small-diameter stems and ten with large-diameter stems. Both groups showed substantial decrease in roentgenographic bone density (from 11% to 28%) in the medial and lateral proximal regions. The large-diameter group had an overall larger decrease in roentgenographic bone density at two and five years. Roentgenographic bone remodeling changes were most pronounced in the first two years. Changes between two and five years progressed at a slower rate. The results also confirmed the predicted effect of stem diameter on bone remodeling patterns.

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