Alternative TKR bearing surfaces: The fermur? You have got to be kidding

Orthopedics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Ritter, Merrill A ^a   Faris, Gregory W ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HIP AND KNEE SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; COBALT COMPLEX; POLYETHYLENE; TITANIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; FEMUR; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OSTEOLYSIS; OXIDATION; PATELLA; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SURVIVAL RATE; TIBIA; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; POLYETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 0141520705     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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