My brother got hip joint fracture. After fixation in first surgery Dr. tells us that it was failed. Now doctor gave three option. 1) try again fixation of hip joint 2) hip joint ball replacement 3) removing that hip joint n living without hip joint femoral head. I want to ask what happened if you go with third option.

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