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Two stage fracture of a polyethylene post in a 9-year-old posterior-stabilized knee prosthesis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Several cases of tibial post breakage are reported in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, only three cases of NexGen knee prosthesis (Zimmer, Warsaw, Indiana, USA) tibial post failure have been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: In November 1999, a 63-year-old Caucasian woman from...

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Autores principales: D'Angelo, Fabio, Marcolli, Daniele, Bulgheroni, Paolo, Murena, Luigi, Congiu, Terenzio, Cherubino, Paolo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20178608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-65