A unitary acetabular cup prosthesis for a deficient acetabulum of a hip
bone having a cup portion and a pair of adjacent screw retaining members
extending from the cup and oriented in a cooperative with one another. A
second pair of screw retaining members are preferably provided, with the
first and second pair of screw retaining members oriented such that the
prosthesis can be used in either a left or a right acetabulum of the
patient. The screw retaining members may be formed on a single flange.
The screw retaining members are fixedly inclined and offset relative to
the rim of the cup. Each screw retaining member has a threaded hole
inclined relative to the rim such that an axis of the threaded hole
converges toward the axis of the cup portion in one dimension and is
oblique to the axis of the cup portion in a second dimension.