Wear analysis of retrieved ceramic-on-ceramic articulations in total hip arthroplasty: Femoral head makes contact with the rim of the socket outside of the bearing surface

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 301-307

  Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Saito, Masanobu ^a   Ueno, Masaru ^b   Hananouchi, Takehito ^a   Tokugawa, Yusuke ^b   Yonenobu, Kazuo ^a  

^a MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOCERA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Implant retrieval; In vivo; Surface analysis; Total joint replacement

Indexed keywords

HIP PROSTHESES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); PATIENT TREATMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATORS; SURFACES; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ARTHROPLASTIES; BEARING SURFACES; FEMORAL HEAD; HIP JOINT;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERAMIC PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT DISLOCATION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMULATOR; STEREOMICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CERAMICS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR HEAD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 18344379708     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30215     Document Type: Article

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