Serum Cobalt Levels After Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2168-2173

  Brodner, Wolfram ^a   Bitzan, Peter ^a   Meisinger, Vanee ^a   Kaider, Alexandra ^b   Gottsauner Wolf, Florian ^c   Kotz, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c University Hospital Krems   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; COBALT; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242490794     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200311000-00017     Document Type: Article

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