Fatigue fracture of a cemented Omnifit CoCr femoral stem: implant and failure analysis
A cemented, cast CoCr alloy, Omnifit Plus femoral stem was retrieved following mid-stem fracture after 24 years in vivo. The patient was an active 55-year-old male with a high body mass index (31.3) and no traumatic incidents before stem fracture. Fractographic and fatigue-based failure analyses wer...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Arthroplasty Today |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352344117300687 |