Early failure of metal-on-metal artificial disc prostheses associated with lymphocytic reaction: Diagnosis and treatment experience in four cases

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Guyer, Richard D ^a   Shellock, Jessica ^a   MacLennan, Benjamin ^b   Hanscom, David ^b   Knight, Reginald Q ^c   McCombe, Peter ^d   Jacobs, Joshua J ^e   Urban, Robert M ^e   Bradford, David ^f   Ohnmeiss, Donna D ^a  

^a TEXAS BACK INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Orthopedics International   (United States)

^c BASSETT HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d Watkins Medical Centre   (Australia)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical spine; complication; lumbar spine; lymphocytic reaction; total disc replacement

Indexed keywords

METAL ION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL TOTAL DISK REPLACEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR TOTAL DISK REPLACEMENT; LYMPHOCYTIC REACTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADICULAR PAIN; SOFT TISSUE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; TISSUE REACTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79953810451     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31820ea9a2     Document Type: Article

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