Clinical usefulness of blood metal measurements to assess the failure of metal-on-metal hip implants

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-131

  Sampson, Barry ^a   Hart, Alister ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; TITANIUM; TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BLOOD LEVEL; CARCINOGENICITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROTHERMAL ATOMIZATION ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GENOTOXICITY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL ON METAL HIP IMPLANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SPECTROMETRY; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; METALS;

EID: 84861502926     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2011.011141     Document Type: Review

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