Abstract It is challenging to treat developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) classified Crowe III-IV using direct anterior approach (DAA) total hip arthroplasty (THA), and very little is known on its outcome.This study aimed to investigate the clinical result in this defined disorder with DAA versus posterolateral approach.Twenty-three consecutive
Weiling Leng,1,* Juan Jiang,2,* Bing Chen,1 Qinan Wu3 1Endocrinology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of the Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University), Chongqing, People’s Republic of China; 2Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital and Chongqing Cancer Institute and Chongqing Ca
In a meta-analysis with multiple end points of interests that are correlated between or within studies, multivariate approach to meta-analysis has a potential to produce more precise estimates of effects by exploiting the correlation structure between end points.However, under random-effects assumption the multivariate estimation is more complex (a