The interpretation of metal ion levels in unilateral and bilateral hip resurfacing study 2012
August 2012 Van Der Straeten C1, Grammatopoulos G, Gill HS, Calistri A,
Campbell P, De Smet KA.
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The interpretation of metal ion concentrations and their role in clinical
management of patients with metal-on-metal implants is still controversial.
We questioned whether patients undergoing hip resurfacing with no clinical
problems could be differentiated from those with clinical (pain, loss of
function) and/or radiographic (component malpositioning, migration, bone loss),
problems based on metal… Read the rest