Aseptic lymphocyte-dominated vasculitis-associated lesion: A clinicopathologic review of an underrecognized cause of prosthetic failure

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 886-893

  Watters, Tyler Steven ^a   Cardona, Diana M ^a   Menon, K Sunil ^a   Vinson, Emily N ^a   Bolognesi, Michael P ^a   Dodd, Leslie G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ALVAL; Aseptic lymphocyte dominated vasculitis associated lesion; Metal hypersensitivity; Pseudotumor; Revision arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; HAPTEN; METAL ION; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ASEPTIC LYMPHOCYTE DOMINATED VASCULITIS ASSOCIATED LESION; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HIP PAIN; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PSEUDOTUMOR; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REVIEW; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VASCULITIS;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; FEMALE; HAPTENS; HIP JOINT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; VASCULITIS;

EID: 78649668756     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPLTNEUAH8XI4W     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Kurtz S, Mowat F, Ong K, et al. Prevalence of primary and revision total hip and knee arthroplasty in the United States from 1990 through 2002. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:1487-1497.
2. Lee K, Goodman SB. Current state and future of joint replacements in the hip and knee. Expert Rev Med Devices. 2008;5:383-393.
3. Amstutz HC, Grigoris P. Metal on metal bearings in hip arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;329(suppl):S11-S34.
4. Evans EM, Freeman MAR, Miller AJ, et al. Metal sensitivity as a cause of bone necrosis and loosening of the prosthesis in total joint replacement. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1974;56:626-642.
5. Higuchi F, Inoue A, Semlitsch M. Metal-on-metal CoCrMo McKee-Farrar total hip arthroplasty: characteristics of a long term follow up study. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 1997;116:121-124. (Pubitemid 27095666)
6. Howie DW, Vernon-Roberts B. The synovial response to intraarticular cobalt-chrome wear particles. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1988;232:244-254.
7. Huo MH, Salvati EA, Lieberman JR, et al. Metallic debris in femoral osteolysis in failed cemented total hip arthroplasties. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1992;276:157-168.
8. Wagner M, Wagner H. Medium term results of a modern metal-on-metal system in total hip replacement. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2000;379:123-133.
9. Dorr LD, Wan Z, Longjohn DB, et al. Total hip arthroplasty with use of the Metasul metal-on-metal articulation: four to seven-year results. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2000;82:789-798.
10. Milosev I, Trebse R, Kovac S, et al. Survivorship and retrieval analysis of Sikomet metal-on-metal total hip replacements at a mean of seven years. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006;88:1173-1182.
11. Sieber HP, Rieker CB, Kottig P. Analysis of 118 second-generation metal-on-metal retrieved hip implants. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1999;81:46-50.
12. Bozic KJ, Kurtz S, Lau E, et al. The epidemiology of bearing surface usage in total hip arthroplasty in the United States. J Bone Join Surg Am. 2009;91:1614-1620.
13. Davies AP, Willert HG, Campbell PA, et al. An unusual lymphocytic perivascular infiltration in tissue around contemporary metal-on-metal joint replacements. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:18-27.
14. Park Y-S, Moon Y-W, Lim S-J, et al. Early osteolysis following second-generation metal-on-metal hip replacement. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:1515-1521.
15. Willert HG, Buckhorn GH, Fayyazi A, et al. Metal-on-metal bearings and hypersensitivity in patients with artificial hip joints: a clinical and histomorphological study. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:28-36.
16. Hallab NJ, Merritt K, Jacobs JJ. Metal sensitivity in patients with orthopaedic implants. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2001;83:428-436. (Pubitemid 32221575)
17. Jacobs JJ, Hallab NJ. Loosening and osteolysis associated with metal-on-metal bearings: a local effect of metal hypersensitivity [editorial]? J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006;88:1171-1172.
18. Korovessis P, Petsinis G, Repanti M, et al. Metallosis after contemporary metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: five to nine-year follow-up. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2006;88:1183-1191.
19. Lohmann CH, Nuechtern JV, Willert HG, et al. Hypersensitivity reactions in total hip arthroplasty. Orthopedics. 2007;30:760-761.
20. Thomas P, Branthen LR, Dorig M, et al. Increased metal allergy with failed metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty and a peri-implant T-lymphocytic inflammation. Allergy. 2009;64:1157-1165.
21. Fang CS, Harvie P, Gibbons CL, et al. The imaging spectrum of peri-articular inflammatory masses following metal-on-metal hip resurfacing. Skeletal Radiol. 2008;37:715-722.
22. Glyn-Jones S, Pandit H, Kwon Y-M, et al. Risk factors for inflammatory pseudotumor formation following hip resurfacing. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2009;91:1566-1574.
23. Mahendra G, Pandit H, Kliskey K, et al. Necrotic and inflammatory changes in metal-on-metal resurfacing hip arthroplasties. Acta Orthop. 2009;80:653-659.
24. Pandit H, Glyn-Jones S, McLardy-Smith P, et al. Pseudotumours associated with metal-on-metal hip resurfacings. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2008;90:847-851.
25. Pandit H, Vlychou M, Whitwell D, et al. Necrotic granulomatous pseudotumors in bilateral resurfacing hip arthroplasties: evidence for type IV immune response. Virchows Arch. 2008;453:529-534.
26. Balato N, Costa L, Lembo G, et al. Allergic contact dermatitis from orthopaedic devices. Contact Dermatitis. 1995;32:314-315.
27. Cramers M, Lucht U. Metal sensitivity in patients treated for tibial fractures with plates of stainless steel. Acta Orthop Scand. 1977;48:245-249.
28. Halpin DS. An unusual reaction in muscle associated with a Vitallium plate: a report of possible metal hypersensitivity. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1975;57:451-453.
29. McKenzie AW, Aitken CVE, Ridsdill-Smith R. Urticaria after insertion of Smith-Petersen Vitallium nail. Br Med J. 1967;4:36.
30. Merle C, Vigan M, Devred D, et al. Generalized eczema from Vitallium osteosynthesis material. Contact Dermatitis. 1992;27:257-258.
31. Rostoker G, Robin J, Binet O, et al. Dermatitis due to orthopaedic implants: a review of the literature and report of three cases. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1987;69:1408-1412.
32. Thomas RH, Rademaker M, Goddard NJ, et al. Severe eczema of the hands due to an orthopaedic plate made of Vitallium. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 1987;294:106-107.
33. Hicks DG, Judkins AR, Sickel JZ, et al. Granular histiocytosis of pelvic lymph nodes following total hip arthroplasty: the presence of wear debris, cytokine production and immunologically activated macrophages. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1996;78:482-496.
34. Munichor M, Cohen H, Volpin G, et al. Chromium-induced lymph node histiocytic proliferation after hip replacement: a case report. Acta Cytol. 2003;47:270-274.
35. Urban RM, Jacobs JJ, Tomlinson MJ, et al. Dissemination of wear particles to the liver, spleen and abdominal lymph nodes of patients with hip or knee replacement. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2000;82:457-476.
36. Jacobs JJ, Hallab NJ, Skipor AK, et al. Metal degradation products: a cause for concern in metal-metal bearings? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2003;417:139-147.
37. Cipriano CA, Issack PS, Beksac B, et al. Metallosis after metal-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty. Am J Orthop (Belle Meade NJ). 2008;37:E18-E25.
38. Doorn PF, Campbell PA, Worrall J, et al. Metal wear particle characterization from metal on metal total hip replacements: transmission electron microscopy study of periprosthetic tissues and isolated particles. J Biomed Mater Res. 1998;42:103-111. (Pubitemid 128772686)
39. Granchi D, Cenni E, Tigani D, et al. Sensitivity to implant materials in patients with total knee arthroplasties. Biomaterials. 2008;29:1494-1500.
40. H1-type cytokine expression in the peri-implantar tissue. Allergy. 2000;55:969-972.
41. Hallab NJ, Anderson S, Stafford T, et al. Lymphocyte responses in patients with total hip arthroplasty. J Orthop Res. 2005;23:384-391.
42. Goodman SB, Huie P, Song Y, et al. Cellular profile and cytokine production at prosthetic interfaces. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1998;80:531-539.
43. Cook SD, McClusky LC, Martin PC, et al. Inflammatory response in retrieved noncemented porous-coated implants. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1991;264:209-222.
44. Doorn PF, Mirra JM, Campbell PA, et al. Tissue reaction to metal on metal total hip prostheses. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;329(suppl):S187-S205.
45. Mirra JM, Marder RA, Amstutz HC. The pathology of failed total joint arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1982;170:175-183.
46. Willert HG, Buckhorn GH, Gobel D, et al. Wear behavior and histopathology of classic cemented metal on metal hip endoprostheses. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;329(suppl):S160-S186. (Pubitemid 26274638)
47. Willert HG, Semlitsch M. Tissue reactions to plastic and metallic wear products of joint endoprostheses. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;333:4-14.
48. Brown GC, Lockshin MD, Salvati EA, et al. Sensitivity to metal as a possible cause of sterile loosening after cobalt-chromium total hip replacement arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1977;59:164-168.
49. Gawkrodger DJ. Metal sensitivities and orthopaedic implants revisited: the potential for metal allergy with the new metal-on-metal joint prostheses. Br J Dermatol. 2003;148:1089-1093.
50. Merritt K, Brown SA. Distribution of cobalt chromium wear and corrosion products and biologic reactions. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;329(suppl):S233- S243.
51. Rooker GD, Wilkinson JD. Metal sensitivity in patients undergoing hip replacement: a prospective study. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1980;62:502-505.
52. Toms AP, Marshall TJ, Cahir J, et al. MRI of early symptomatic metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: a retrospective review of radiological findings in 20 hips. Clin Radiol. 2008;63:49-58.
53. Brodner W, Bitzan P, Meisinger V, et al. Serum cobalt levels after metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2003;85:2168-2173.
54. Jacobs JJ, Skipor AK, Doorn PF, et al. Cobalt and chromium concentrations in patients with metal on metal total hip replacements. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1996;329(suppl):S256-263.
55. Lhotka C, Szekeres T, Steffan I, et al. Four year study of cobalt and chromium blood levels in patients managed with two different metal-on-metal hip replacements. J Orthop Res. 2003;21:189-195.
56. Milosev I, Pisoat V, Campbell P. Serum levels of cobalt and chromium in patients with Sikomet metal-metal total hip replacements. J Orthop Res. 2005;23:526-535.
57. Athanasou NA, Pandey R, de Steiger R, et al. Diagnosis of infection by frozen section during revision arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1995;77:28-33.
58. Pandey R, Berendt AR, Athanasou NA. Histological and microbiological findings in non-infected and infected revision arthroplasty tissues. The OSIRIS Collaborative Study Group. Oxford Skeletal Infection Research and Intervention Service. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2000;120:570-574.
59. Musso AD, Mohanty K, Spencer-Jones R. Role of frozen section histology in the diagnosis of infection during revision arthroplasty. Postgrad Med J. 2003;79:590-593.
60. Nunez LV, Buttaro MA, Morandi A, et al. Frozen sections of samples taken intraoperatively for diagnosis of infection in revision hip surgery. Acta Orthop. 2007;78:226-230. (Pubitemid 46676664)
61. Morawitz L, Tiddens O, Mueller M, et al. Twenty-three neutrophil granulocytes in 10 high-power fields is the best histopathologic threshold to differentiate between aseptic and septic endoprosthesis loosening. Histopathology. 2009;54:847-853.
62. Kanner WA, Saleh KJ, Frierson HF. Reassessment of the usefulness of frozen section analysis for hip and knee joint revisions. Am J Clin Pathol. 2008;130:363-368.