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Case Reports in Orthopedics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 173921, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/173921
Case Report

Secondary Hip Osteoarthritis due to Neurofibroma Treated with Total Hip Replacement

Suksan Tangsataporn, Alireza Shakib, Paul R. Kuzyk, David J. Backstein, Allan E. Gross, and Oleg A. Safir

Division of Arthroplasty, Orthopedic Department, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Suite 476A, Toronto, ON, M5G 1X5, Canada

Received 9 September 2012; Accepted 9 October 2012

Academic Editors: K. Erler, A. H. Kivioja, and A. Sakamoto

Copyright © 2012 Suksan Tangsataporn et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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