Elevated serum cobalt with metal-on-metal articulating surfaces

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 316-321

  Brodner, Wolfram ^a,b   Bitzan, Peter ^a,b   Meisinger, Vanee ^a,c   Kaider, Alexandra ^a,b   Gottsauner Wolf, Florian ^a,b   Kotz, Rainer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Klinische Abteilung für Arbeitsmedizin   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; POLYETHYLENE; TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CERAMIC PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; TIME; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERAMICS; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; COBALT; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYETHYLENES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 0030905094     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.79B2.7326     Document Type: Article

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