Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | CORR Insights
CORR Insights®: Otto Aufranc Award: Large Heads Do Not Increase Damage at the Head-neck Taper of Metal-on-polyethylene Total Hip Arthroplasties
verfasst von:
Philip C. Noble, PhD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
Large femoral heads offer proven benefits in reducing the risk of dislocation. However, the failure rate of metal-on-metal (MoM) THA increases with head size, and is even larger than hip resurfacing cases using the same design of articulation [
1,
3]. This appears to be due to an increased generation of corrosion products at the modular head-neck junction [
6]. …