Polyethylene damage and deformation on fixed-bearing, non-conforming unicondylar knee replacements corresponding to progressive changes in alignment and fixation

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 570-575

  Harman, Melinda K ^a,b   Schmitt, Sabine ^c   Rössing, Sven ^d   Banks, Scott A ^b,e   Sharf, Hans Peter ^d   Viceconti, Marco ^a   Hodge, W Andrew ^b,e  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Institute for Mobility and Longevity   (United States)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITÄT HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Implants; Knee replacement; Materials; Modeling; Stress; Tribology

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CONTACT; CONTACT POINTS; DAMAGE AREA; DAMAGE PATTERNS; DEFORMATION RATES; FEMORAL COMPONENT; IMPLANTS; IN-VIVO; INTRA-OPERATIVE; KNEE BIOMECHANICS; KNEE REPLACEMENT; LARGE REGIONS; POLYETHYLENE INSERTS; PRE-CLINICAL; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TIBIAL COMPONENT; WEAR MECHANISMS;

ALIGNMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; DEFORMATION; MACHINE DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMOPLASTICS; TRIBOLOGY;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

POLYETHYLENE;

ABRASION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR SURFACE DEFORMATION; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOPROSTHESIS LOOSENING; FEMALE; FEMORAL COMPONENT MIGRATION; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LIMB MALALIGNMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; TIBIAL COMPONENT MIGRATION; UNICONDYLAR KNEE REPLACEMENT; BODY MASS; CHEMISTRY; KNEE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS; SURGERY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; POLYETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77952542558     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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