Primary hip replacement stem taper fracture due to corrosion in 3 patients

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  • Michael M Morlock
  • Dennis Bünte
  • Harmen Ettema
  • Cees C Verheyen
  • Åke Hamberg
  • Jeremy Gilbert
چکیده

© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Nordic Orthopedic Federation. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) DOI 10.3109/17453674.2015.1128780 (McGrory et al. 2015, Bishop et al. 2013). No mechanical implant failures (i.e. fractures) have been documented. In contrast, bi-modular primary and revision hip systems with necks and stems made of ti tanium-aluminium-vanadium alloy (Ti alloy) have shown fracture rates of up to 2.4% due to corrosion without any previous biological responses (Grupp et al. 2010, Norman et al. 2014). Taper fractures of primary Ti alloy THA stems with a modular head taper have not been reported in the literature, but major taper corrosion and material loss have been found for one design in particular (Witt et al. 2014). We present 3 cases of stem taper fracture as the ultimate failure mode of this design.

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دوره 87  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2016