Need help re medical word in hip surgery case.

Can't figure out a word.  I have (phonetic) after it.  HELP?!

Q. Can you tell us more specifically where it was fractured, if you recall? 

A. Yes.  So it was broken about -- probably about a little more than halfway down the stem, and the top part of the stem was unsupported by bone, and the bottom part was sallie (phonetic) fixed in the tube of the thigh bone and was broken at the junction where it was fixed and not fixed.

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Permalink Reply by Bece Kidder on October 24, 2011 at 21:18
Could it be semi fixed?
Permalink Reply by Susan Magee on October 24, 2011 at 21:21
I don't think so unfortunately.  It sounds really like "saully."
Permalink Reply by Lisa Jasmin on October 25, 2011 at 8:30

Could it possibly be "solidly"?

Permalink Reply by Quyen on October 25, 2011 at 15:07

I think it's "solid fixed."  See here: Hip replacement article. 

 

See Reference 2, which says, "Robbins GM, Masri BA, Garbuz DS, Duncan CP. Evaluation of pain in patients with apparently solid fixed total hip arthroplasty component. J Am Acad Surg. 2002; 10(2):86-94.

Permalink Reply by Susan Magee on October 25, 2011 at 15:19

Thanks, Lisa, Diane and Quyen :)

I'm changing it to "solidly."

 

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