Failures and successes in total hip replacement - Why good ideas may not work

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-120

  Morscher, Erwin W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Felix Platter Spital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complications; Failures; Innovations; Total hip replacement

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE REGENERATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0037933413     PISSN: 14574969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/145749690309200202     Document Type: Review

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