Pain in a chromium-allergic patient with total knee arthroplasty: disappearance of symptoms after revision with a special surface-coated TKA — a case report

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 386-388

  Thomsen, Marc ^a   Rozak, Matthias ^a   Thomas, Peter ^b  

^a Drk Klinik Baden Baden   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; BONE CEMENT; CHROMIUM;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SKIN ALLERGY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE CEMENTS; CHROMIUM; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION;

EID: 80051925766     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453674.2011.579521     Document Type: Note

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