Serum aluminium and cobalt levels after ceramic-on-ceramic and metal-on-metal total hip replacement

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1003-1005

  Grübl, Alexander ^a   Weissinger, M ^b   Brodner, W ^c   Gleiss, A ^a   Giurea, A ^a   Gruber, M ^a   Poll G ^b   Meisinger, V ^a   Gottsauner Wolf, F ^c   Kotz, R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b General Hospital Zwettl   (Austria)

^c General Hospital Krems   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COBALT; NIOBIUM; TITANIUM;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; AGED; ALUMINUM BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CERAMICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FEMUR; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALUMINUM; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CERAMICS; COBALT; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747359858     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.88B8.17870     Document Type: Article

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