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CORR Insights^®: Otto Aufranc Award: Large Heads Do Not Increase Damage at the Head-neck Taper of Metal-on-polyethylene Total Hip Arthroplasties

Author: Philip C. Noble, PhD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 2/2016

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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]. …

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Title: CORR Insights®: Otto Aufranc Award: Large Heads Do Not Increase Damage at the Head-neck Taper of Metal-on-polyethylene Total Hip Arthroplasties
Author: Philip C. Noble, PhD
Publication date: 01-02-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-015-4518-0

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