Micro-wear patterns on UHMWPE tibial inserts in total knee joint simulation

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 218-225

  Tamura, Jiro ^a,b   Clarke, Ian C ^a   Kawanabe, Keiichi ^b   Akagi, Masao ^a   Good, Victoria D ^a   Williams, Paul A ^a   Masaoka, Toshinori ^a   Schroeder, Dave ^c   Oonishi, Hironobu ^d  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Biomet Incorporated   (United States)

^d MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Knee simulator; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); Total knee replacement (TKR); Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE); Wear

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MICRO-WEAR PATTERNS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

POLYETHYLENE; POLYMER; POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE; ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KINEMATICS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE SURGERY; LEG MOVEMENT; LOADING TEST; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYETHYLENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIBIA;

EID: 0036268869     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.10027     Document Type: Article

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