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Metal debris concentrations in soft tissues adjacent to loosened femoral stems is higher in uncemented than cemented implants

BACKGROUND: There are still many questions related to aseptic femoral stem loosening. Systemic and local immune responses to the implanted “foreign body” is one of the reasons for loosening. The purpose of the study was to measure metal ion concentration (Ti, Co, Cr, Mo, Ni, Al) around loosened femo...

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Autores principales: Kmieć, Krzysztof, Synder, Marek, Kozłowski, Piotr, Drobniewski, Marek, Sibiński, Marcin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4127068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25098913
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-267