# Total Hip Replacement With the Answer® Hip Stem and Ranawat/Burnstein® Shell Using Simplex® or Palacos® Bone Cement

> **NCT00588861** · NA · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Biomet Orthopedics, LLC** · enrollment: 400 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Osteoarthritis, Hip
- Traumatic Arthritis of Hip

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** Answer® hip stem
- **DEVICE:** Answer® hip stem

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00588861
- **Lead sponsor:** Biomet Orthopedics, LLC
- **Sponsor class:** INDUSTRY
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2002-09
- **Primary completion:** 2010-05
- **Final completion:** 2010-05
- **Target enrollment:** 400 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Study was terminated due to insufficient data and lack of patient follow-up
- **Last updated:** 2017-01-27


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00588861

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00588861, "Total Hip Replacement With the Answer® Hip Stem and Ranawat/Burnstein® Shell Using Simplex® or Palacos® Bone Cement". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00588861. Licensed CC0.

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