Thirteen-year wear rate comparison of highly crosslinked and conventional polyethylene in total hip arthroplasty: long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized controlled trial
Author(s) -
Matthew G. Teeter,
Xunhua Yuan,
Lyndsay Somerville,
Steven J. MacDonald,
Richard W. McCalden,
Douglas D.R. Naudie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.005216
Subject(s) - medicine , total hip arthroplasty , randomized controlled trial , arthroplasty , prospective cohort study , surgery , term (time) , physical therapy , quantum mechanics , physics
The purpose of this study was to report the radiographic wear rates from a previous randomized controlled trial of first-generation highly crosslinked versus conventional polyethylene in total hip arthroplasty (THA) at a minimum of 13 years' follow-up.
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