[The total alloplasty of the hip in very aged people (author's transl)].

By means of a short follow-up study about all patients of more than eighty years of age, who had done a total alloplasty of the hip in the BG-Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen/Rhein, this is a report of the problems of surgery in the very aged people, the indication of surgery, the pre- and postoperative management and furthermore on complications and long-time results.