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n. - Surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint.

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  • This surgery is also know as arthroplasty, a very common procedure performed to thousands each year in the United States.
  • Japan lags, though, in terms of invasive surgery; Japanese patients are much less apt than Americans to have operations such as arthroplasty, transplant, or heart bypass.
  • So when a search for “arthroplasty” produces 113,065 hits, is that really the right number?
  • Clinical trial results are found in the June 26,2008 issue of NEJM for the hip arthroplasty and total knee replacement studies.
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