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Lower prosthesis-specific 10-year revision rate with crosslinked than with non-crosslinked polyethylene in primary total knee arthroplasty: 386,104 procedures from the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry

Background and purpose — While highly crosslinked polyethylene has shown reduced in vivo wear and lower rates of revision for total hip arthroplasty, there have been few long-term studies on its use in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We compared the rate of revision of non-crosslinked polyethylene to...

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Autores principales: de Steiger, Richard N, Muratoglu, Orhun, Lorimer, Michelle, Cuthbert, Alana R, Graves, Stephen E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26119884
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2015.1065046