High incidence of squeaking in THAs with alumina ceramic-on-ceramic bearings

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1438-1443

  Keurentjes, J C ^a,b   Kuipers, R M ^a   Wever, D J ^a   Schreurs, B W ^b  

^a SLINGELAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BODY MASS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CERAMICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRATING; HIP DYSPLASIA; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SOUND; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; AGED; ARTHROPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP PROSTHESIS; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JOINT DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUND;

EID: 44949094495     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0177-8     Document Type: Article

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