Meanings of primary osteoarthritis in English

Total shoulder arthroplasty provides results superior to those of hemiarthroplasty in primary osteoarthritis.

Methods: The results of 319 total shoulder arthroplasties performed for the treatment of primary osteoarthritis were evaluated.

Six hundred one total shoulder arthroplasties and eighty-nine hemiarthroplasties were performed for primary osteoarthritis of the shoulder.

With respect to the specific postoperative treatment after joint replacement the long-term results are comparable with those from patients with primary osteoarthritis.

Pre-operative and one-year post-operative data from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, including 6158 patients with primary osteoarthritis of the hip, were analysed.

Primary osteoarthritis was the etiology for sixty-four hips.