Metal-on-Metal Bearings A Clinical Practicum /
This book addresses the background and significance of the factors potentially influencing the clinical and biological outcomes of metal-on-metal hip implants. Metal-on-metal bearings were introduced and evaluated as an alternative to other bearing couples, particularly metal-on-polyethylene, due to...
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8999-3 |
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Sommario:
- Preface
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Overview of Metal-on-Metal Implants
- Chapter 2: Bearing Surfaces for Joint Replacement: New Materials or New Problems?
- Part II: Clinical
- Chapter 3: Outcome Studies for Metal-on-Metal Bearings: What Evidence-Based Medicine Tells Us
- Chapter 4: Metal Reactivity: Its Influence on Primary and Revision Outcomes
- Chapter 5: Are metal ion levels a trigger for surgical intervention?
- Chapter 6: Metal Sensitivity: Is it possible to Determine Clinically?
- Part III: Biology
- Chapter 7: Wound healing, chronic inflammation, and immune responses
- Chapter 8: Benign Responses to Orthopaedic Implants: Really?
- Chapter 9: What does the Histology Tell Us?
- Part IV: Biomechanics
- Chapter 10: Why metal-on-metal -what laboratory tests have shown us
- Chapter 11: What do the Retrievals really tell us?
- Future Directions.- Index.