Alumina hip joints characterized by run-in wear and steady-state wear to 14 million cycles in hip-simulator model

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 523-532

  Oonishi, Hironobu ^a   Clarke, Ian C ^b   Good, Victoria ^b   Amino, Hirokazu ^c   Ueno, Masuru ^c  

^a Tominaga Hospital   (Japan)

^b Department of Orthopaedics   (United States)

^c KYOCERA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alumina; Ceramic; Hip arthroplasty; Simulator; Wear

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BODY FLUIDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); JOINTS (ANATOMY);

BOVINE SERUM; LINEAR PHASE AVERAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; LUBRICATING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERAMIC PROSTHESIS; DEVICE; FETAL CALF SERUM; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODEL; PERFORMANCE; RUN IN WEAR; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE WEAR;

EID: 4344667565     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30021     Document Type: Article

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