It is significant that hazardous properties of chemicals including replacements for banned or restricted products are assessed at an early stage product and process design.

Patient. We report the case of a 20-year-old caucasian male with an Ewing's sarcoma in the left upper femur. After induction chemotherapy, he underwent resection of the left upper femur and insertion of a cemented proximal femoral replacement. Four years later, he presented with a solitary bone metastasis in the right upper femur. He underwent further chemotherapy followed by resection and endo...

Pettersson, M. 2015. Silicon nitride for total hip replacements. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1242. 53 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9211-3. For more than 50 years total hip replacements have been a common and successful procedure to increase patient mobility and quality of life. The 10-year im...

A review of patients with an infected resurfacing prosthesis is presented. Eight patients with a loose infected prosthesis were treated by a one-stage exchange arthroplasty; six others with a well-fixed infected prosthesis were treated by drainage and antibiotics. All eight treated by exchange arthroplasty remained free of infection as did five of those treated by drainage. In four of these las...