The stress analysis of straight-stemmed femoral components for total hip replacements
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology
- Vol. 6 (1) , 25-27
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03091908209032568
Abstract
Recent work indicates that changes to the design of total hip replacement femoral components, to reduce the magnitudes of the tensile stresses produced in their proximal-lateral surfaces, may produce unnecessarily large tensile stresses in their distal medial surfaces.Keywords
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