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1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of North Carolina, 3151 Bioinformatics Building, CB 7055, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA. paul_lachiewicz@med.unc.edu
Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances
|March 31, 2009
Abstract:
Well-fixed metal-metal hip resurfacing components are removed for infection, instability, or hypersensitivity reactions. This article presents a technique for removal of a porous resurfacing acetabular component with minimal bone loss.
