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What can the surgeon do to reduce the risk of junction breakage in modular revision stems?

Modular revision stems are very common in hip arthroplasty, but junction fracture remains a known failure mechanism. A review of the literature with description of cases with junction breakage of modular revision stems showed that in all 24 analyzed cases, there was a common finding: the combination...

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Autor principal: Fink, Bernd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2018.03.002

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