Femoral strain changes after total hip arthroplasty - Patient-specific finite element analyses 12 years after operation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 649-654

  Lengsfeld, Markus ^a,b   Burchard, Rene ^a   Günther, Daniel ^a   Pressel, Thomas ^a   Schmitta, Jan ^a   Leppek, Ronald ^b   Griss, Peter ^a  

^a Clinic of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vivo strain analysis; Periprosthetic stress shielding; Total hip arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIP PROSTHESES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); STRAIN;

HUMAN FEMORA; IN VIVO STRAIN ANALYSIS; PERIPROSTHETIC STRESS-YIELDING; TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PERIPROSTHETIC STRES SHIELDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 27644493651     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.12.016     Document Type: Article

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