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Article: Researchers' work from University of Oxford focuses on hip replacements.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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"Inflammatory pseudotumours occasionally occur after metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and often lead to revision. Our aim was to determine the severity of this complication by assessing the outcome of revision in these circumstances and by comparing this with the outcome of other metal-on-metal hip resurfacing revisions as well as that of matched primary total hip replacements," scientists writing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume report (see also Hip Replacements).
"We identified 53 hips which had undergone metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and required revision at a mean of 1.59 years (0.01 to 6.69) after operation. Of these, 16 were revised ...
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