Long-term evaluation of a compliant cushion form acetabular bearing for hip joint replacement: A 20 million cycles wear simulation

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1859-1866

  Elsner, Jonathan J ^a   Shemesh, Maoz ^a   Mezape, Yoav ^a   Levenshtein, Mario ^b   Hakshur, Keren ^b   Shterling, Avi ^a   Linder Ganz, Eran ^a   Eliaz, Noam ^b  

^a Active Implants Corporation   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

bio ferrography; fatigue; filtration; polycarbonate urethane; total hip replacement

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; COBALT; POLYCARBONATE; POLYETHYLENE; URETHAN;

ACETABULUM; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMUR HEAD PROSTHESIS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION;

ACETABULUM; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CHROMIUM ALLOYS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMUR HEAD; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; TIME FACTORS; URETHANE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 80054707769     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.21471     Document Type: Article

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