Polyethylene glenoid component fixation geometry influences stability in total shoulder arthroplasty

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Nikolas K Knowles1,2,3, G Daniel G Langohr1,2,3,4, George S Athwal2,3

  • 1a School of Biomedical Engineering , The University of Western Ontario , London , ON, Canada.

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
|January 1, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Shoulder arthroplastyfinite-element analysisglenoidosteoarthritispolyethylene component

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