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Novel Diagnostics in Revision Arthroplasty: Implant Sonication and Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction
Published on: December 3, 2017
Implant failure with particulate silicone synovitis (detritic synovitis)
M D Perlman1, A D Schor, M L Gold
1Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center, Secaucus, New Jersey.
The Journal of Foot Surgery
|November 1, 1990
Abstract:
The authors present a case of particulate synovitis due to a silicone hemi-implant. Other names for this condition are silastic detritic synovitis and silastic foreign body synovitis. Small, free pieces of silastic cause inflammation of the synovial tissues. A literature review also is presented.
