I wanted to inform you of a situation in which your website helped us during a hip revision.  I’m sure you already know how valuable your x-ray registry is and it only continues to get stronger with more additions.

I was doing a case in which the surgeon was revising a prosthesis that had no op report and he couldn’t identify the components.  He was planning on revising the stem and shell and was convinced that they were loose.  However, and I think you know where I’m going with this, the stem was solid and would have required an ETO and lots of time to bang out.  I happened to locate the stem on OrthopaedicLIST and from there we contacted the company’s rep and got head options and liner options.  What could have been a long and very difficult revision turned out to be a head and liner exchange and most likely a better outcome for the patient.

Just to offer some feedback…what might make it easier to locate implants would be to subcategorize even further than just primary hip replacemet.  For example, pressfit vs cement, collar vs collarless, taper vs cylindrical, etc.

There used to be a site called that had a good number of x-rays but it appears to be gone.  Now OrthopaedicLIST and xrayregistry.com are the only x-ray identification sites that I’m aware of and orthopaediclist has a much larger database.

Thanks for the site.  I will continue to help add more x-rays and encourage others to do so as well.

Regards,

Andrew Walden

Andrew Walden is an orthopaedic manufacturer’s representative based in Wilmington, NC, USA.  Click on Implant Identification to see the aforementioned “x-ray registry”.