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The Inflammatory Phenotype in Failed Metal-On-Metal Hip Arthroplasty Correlates with Blood Metal Concentrations

INTRODUCTION: Hip arthroplasty is the standard treatment of a painful hip destruction. The use of modern metal-on-metal (MOM) bearing surfaces gained popularity in total hip arthroplasties during the last decade. Recently, worrisome failures due to adverse reaction to metal debris (ARMD), including...

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Autores principales: Paukkeri, Erja-Leena, Korhonen, Riku, Hämäläinen, Mari, Pesu, Marko, Eskelinen, Antti, Moilanen, Teemu, Moilanen, Eeva
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27227536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155121