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Patient and surgery related factors associated with fatigue type polyethylene wear on 49 PCA and DURACON retrievals at autopsy and revision

BACKGROUND: Polyethylene wear is an important factor for longevity of total knee arthroplasty. Proven and suspicious factors causing wear can be grouped as material, patient and surgery related. There are more studies correlating design and/or biomaterial factors to in vivo wear than those to patien...

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Autores principales: Rohrbach, Markus, Lüem, Martin, Ochsner, Peter E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2289815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18294372
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-3-8