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Damages of the tibial post in constrained total knee prostheses in the early postoperative course – a scanning electron microscopic study of polyethylene inlays

BACKGROUND: Investigation of the risk of fracture of the polyethylene (PE) inlay in constrained total knee prostheses. METHODS: Three unused and seven polyethylene inlays that had been implanted in a patient's knee for an average of 25.4 months (min 1.1 months, max 50.2 months) were investigate...

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Autores principales: Skwara, Adrian, Tibesku, Carsten O, Reichelt, Rudolf, Fuchs-Winkelmann, Susanne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2435533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18547408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-9-83