Disintegration of porous polyethylene prostheses

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 168-170

  Kerr, Alan G ^a,b   Riley, D N ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disintegration; Middle ear reconstruction; Porous prostheses

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIDDLE EAR PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STAPES;

ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CLOSED; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; OSSICULAR PROSTHESIS; OSSICULAR REPLACEMENT; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STAPES;

EID: 0032974331     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1999.00233.x     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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3. 3 SMYTH G.D.L. (1982) Five-year report on partial ossicular replacement prostheses and total ossicular replacement prostheses. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 90, 343-346