Transmission electron microscopy of intracellular particles of polyethylene from joint replacement prostheses: Size distribution and cellular response

Biomaterials

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 2835-2842

  Benz, Eric B ^a   Federman, Micheline ^b   Godleski, John J ^a   Bierbaum, Benjamin E ^c   Thornhill, Thomas S ^a   Spector, Myron ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); JOINT PROSTHESES; TISSUE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

POLYETHYLENES;

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT DEGENERATION; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; PAIN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOLYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POLYETHYLENE;

EID: 0034906260     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(01)00027-8     Document Type: Article

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