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Neuropsychiatric symptoms following metal-on-metal implant failure with cobalt and chromium toxicity

BACKGROUND: There were at least 31,171 metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants in the UK between 2003 and 2011. Some of these were subject to failure and widescale recalls and revisions followed. METHOD: This is a presentation of ten cases (mean age 60 years) where we evaluated neuropsychiatric morbidity...

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Autores principales: Green, Ben, Griffiths, Emily, Almond, Solomon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5259873/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1174-1