Wear mode and wear mechanism of retrieved acetabular cups

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 286-290

  Yamamoto, Kengo ^a   Imakiire, Atsuhiro ^a   Masaoka, Toshinori ^a   Shishido, Takaaki ^a   Mizoue, Tatsuro ^a   Clarke, Ian C ^b   Shoji, Hiromu ^b   Kawanabe, Keiichi ^c   Tamura, Jiro ^c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FIBER; FLUID SHIFT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION;

EID: 0242267493     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-003-0477-2     Document Type: Article

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