Case report: High chromium and cobalt levels in a pregnant patient with bilateral metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties hip

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2325-2331

  Fritzsche, Juliane ^a   Borisch, Cornelia ^a   Schaefer, Christof ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT;

ADULT; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE ATROPHY; BREAST FEEDING; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHROMIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC PAIN; COBALT BLOOD LEVEL; COMORBIDITY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEARING TEST; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP DISLOCATION; HIP DYSPLASIA; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HIP PAIN; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; INFANT; INGUINAL REGION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS BLOOD; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW;

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; CHROMIUM; COBALT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 84866468058     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2398-0     Document Type: Article

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