Aging of retrieved zirconia femoral heads

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 462, Issue , 2007, Pages 122-129

  Fernandez Fairen, Mariano ^a,e   Blanco, Agustin ^b   Murcia, Antonio ^c   Sevilla, Pablo ^d   Gil, Francisco J ^d  

^a Instituto de Cirugía Ortopédica Y Traumatología de Barcelona   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE BURGOS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE CABUEÑES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^e NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIA; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FRACTURE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WEIGHT BEARING; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; HIP PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERAMICS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING; YTTRIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 34548387064     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e31811eb4c3     Document Type: Article

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