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Risk of Complication and Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty Among Medicare Patients with Different Bearing Surfaces

BACKGROUND: To address the long-term problems of bearing surface wear and osteolysis associated with conventional metal-polyethylene (M-PE) total hip arthroplasty (THA), metal-metal (M-M), and ceramic-ceramic (C-C) bearings have been introduced. These bearing surfaces are associated with unique risk...

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Autores principales: Bozic, Kevin J., Ong, Kevin, Lau, Edmund, Kurtz, Steven M., Vail, Thomas P., Rubash, Harry E., Berry, Daniel J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165935
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1262-3