A striated pattern of wear in ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene components of Miller-Galante total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Arthroplasty

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-16

  Wimmer, Markus A ^a   Andriacchi, Thomas P ^b   Natarajan, Raghu N ^b   Loos, Joachim ^c   Karlhuber, Matthias ^a   Petermann, Jürgen ^c   Schneider, Erich ^c   Rosenberg, Aaron G ^b  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Knee arthroplasty; Knee mechanics; Polyethylene; Retrieval analysis; Wear

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; STRESS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 0031894928     PISSN: 08835403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-5403(98)90069-9     Document Type: Article

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