Hip New World Article – Focus on Bioengineering and Metal on Metal Hip Replacement
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14/04/2006
BLOOD LEVELS OF METALS EQUALLY HIGH IN SURFACE REPLACEMENT
AND TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT PATIENTS
The modern surface hip replacement devices are always of the
type metal-on-metal type. Their bearing surfaces are
considerably greater (diameter 52 – 56 mm) then the bearing
surfaces of the “conventional” metal-on-metal total hip
joints (diameter 28- 32 mm).
There has been concern that the large surface area of
surface replacement devices produce larger numbers of
metallic wear particles than … Read the rest