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LÆKNABLAÐIÐ
og dr. B.C. Sykes, Nuffield Department of
Pathology & Bacteriology í Oxford.
SUMMARY
Is Coxarthrosis an inherited disease? A family
with seventeen siblings was investigated. Fourteen
of the siblings have confirmed coxarthrosis. The
mother (bom 1899) of the seventeen siblings has
had bilateral total hip replacement and her mother
(bom in 1875) was crippled with coxarthrosis at an
early age. Several more members of this family are
known to have coxarthrosis. Their general health
is good and symptoms are rare in other joints.
Further studies are being carried out to chart the
distribution of coxarthrosis in other generations of
this family and to investigate how coxarthrosis may
be inherited in this family.
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