Intergranular corrosion-fatigue failure of cobalt-alloy femoral stems. A failure analysis of two implants.
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- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 76 (1) , 110-115
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199401000-00014
Abstract
Two modular hip implants with a cobalt-alloy head and a cobalt-alloy stem were retrieved after a fracture had occurred in the neck region of the femoral component, eighty-five and seventy months after implantation. Both implants failed less than one millimeter distal to the taper junction beKeywords
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