"Revisione critica delle vie di accesso all'anca negli interventi di sostituzione protesica"

The total hip replacement operation needs a specific surgical approach and a wide exposure of the hip joint. In the last century, many of them have been proposed for this type of operation, with variations that were more or less significant and important. With time only some types of surgical approaches have been selected and others have proved to be inadequate from the functional point of view. The authors analysis the most used surgical approaches to the hip joint in the last ten years, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each one.