Nontraumatic Fracture of the Femoral Condylar Prosthesis in a Total Knee Arthroplasty Leading to Mechanical Failure

This paper reports a case of fatigue fracture of the femoral component in a cruciate-retaining cemented total knee arthroplasty (TKA). A 64-year-old man had undergone a primary TKA for osteoarthritis 10 years previously at another institution using the PFC-Sigma prosthesis. The patient recovered ful...

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Main Authors: Swamy, Girish N., Quah, Conal, Bagouri, Elmunzar, Badhe, Nitin P.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920922/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24587928
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/896348
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