Cobalt toxicity after total hip replacement: A neglected adverse effect?

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-147

  Rizzetti, M Cristina ^a   Catalani, Simona ^a   Apostoli, Pietro ^a   Padovani, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NEUROTOXICITY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYNEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; COBALT BLOOD LEVEL; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP RESURFACING ARTHROPLASTY; LIMB WEAKNESS; NERVE POTENTIAL; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; COBALT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 78650465666     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21902     Document Type: Letter

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