The effect on wear of lift-off in total knee arthroplasty

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 231-234

  Todo, Shinichi ^a   Blunn, Gordon W ^b   Harrison, Mark ^b   Freeman, Michael A R ^c  

^a Yasaka cho Kokuho Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delamination; Lift off; Total knee arthroplasty; UHMWPE; Wear

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMATERIALS; DELAMINATION; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ARTHROPLASTY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRICTION; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0042931211     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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