Wear in total knee arthroplasty - Just a question of polyethylene?: Metal ion release in total knee arthroplasty

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 335-340

  Kretzer, Jan Philippe ^a   Reinders, Joern ^a   Sonntag, Robert ^a   Hagmann, Sebastien ^a   Streit, Marcus ^a   Jeager, Sebastian ^a   Moradi, Babak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Metal ion; Total knee arthroplasty; Wear

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CHROMIUM; COBALT; HUMANS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MOLYBDENUM; POLYETHYLENE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TITANIUM; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84894531353     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-013-2162-4     Document Type: Article

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