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Bilateral protrusio acetabuli of the hip
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  1. Raju Vaishya
  1. Department of Orthopaedic and Joint Replacement Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor Raju Vaishya, raju.vaishya{at}gmail.com

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A 65-year-old woman presented with a 20-year history of seropositive rheumatoid polyarthritis. Her disease had destroyed most of her major joints of the body, including both knees, hips, elbows, wrists, finger joints, spine and joints of the feet. She had undergone a successful bilateral total knee replacement surgery 7 years ago.

For the past 2 years, she had been having difficulty in standing and walking with ‘noises’ …

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