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Similar 5-year wear between OxZi & CoCr femoral head when paired with XLPE liner in THA

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October 2015

Similar 5-year wear between OxZi & CoCr femoral head when paired with XLPE liner in THA

Vol: 4| Issue: 10| Number:1| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:2
Journal Level of Evidence:N/A

Five-year comparison of wear using oxidised zirconium and cobalt-chrome femoral heads in total hip arthroplasty: a multicentre randomised controlled trial

Bone Joint J. 2015 Jul;97-B(7):883-9

Contributing Authors:
SS Jassim S Patel N Wardle J Tahmassebi R Middleton DL Shardlow A Stephen J Hutchinson FS Haddad

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Synopsis

401 patients scheduled for total hip arthroplasty were randomized to one of three groups of bearing surfaces: an oxidized zirconium (OxZi) femoral head on a highly crosslinked polyethylene liner (OxZi-XLPE), an OxZi femoral head on an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene liner (OxZi-UHMWPE), or a cobalt chromium (CoCr) femoral head on a XLPE liner (CoCr-XLPE). The purpose of this study was to ...

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