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Is there added risk in resurfacing a femoral head with cysts?

BACKGROUND: Femoral head cysts have been identified as a risk factor for early femoral failures after metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty (HRA) based on limited scientific data. However, we routinely performed HRA if less than 1/3 of the femoral head appeared destroyed by cysts on the preope...

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Autores principales: Gross, Thomas P, Liu, Fei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3216843/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22004681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-6-55