Polyneuropathy caused by cobalt-chromium metallosis after total hip replacement

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-143

  Ikeda, Tokuhei ^a   Takahashi, Kazuya ^a,b   Kabata, Tamon ^a   Sakagoshi, Daigo ^a   Tomita, Katsuro ^a   Yamada, Masahito ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Iou National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial hip joint; Biopsy; Metal intoxication; Polyneuropathy; Toxic neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; CHROMIUM; COBALT; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING LOSS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTOXICATION; PARESTHESIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURAL NERVE; SYMPTOM; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SURAL NERVE; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 77954099768     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21638     Document Type: Article

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