Data from Department of Orthopedic Surgery Advance Knowledge in Arthroplasty (Selective Pathological Examination Following Hip Arthroplasty: a Retrospective Cohort Study).

The factors that identified the unexpectedclinically relevant diagnoses were pathological fracture(3 cases out of 13), bone abnormality perioperatively (2out of 19), abnormalities on preoperative radiographs (1out of 9) and to a lesser extent malignancy in history (2out of 86). The aim of this studywas to gain insight in when to select a patient forpathological examination of the femoral head by means ofthe following research questions: 'How many clinicallyrelevant diagnoses does selective pathologicalexamination identify? According to the news editors, the research concluded:"Factors that identify clinically relevant diagnoses arepathological fracture, perioperative bone abnormality,abnormalities on preoperative radiographs and to a lesserextent malignancy in history. [Extracted from the article]