Imaging of ceramic liner fractures in total hip arthroplasty: the value of CT. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Fracture of a ceramic liner of a total hip arthroplasty is rare and is radiographically occult if not displaced. We report on two patients in whom ceramic liner fracture was radiographically occult but was diagnosed on subsequent CT scan through appropriate windowing.

publication date

  • March 7, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Ceramics
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Foreign-Body Migration
  • Hip Prosthesis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84931578661

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s00256-015-2122-8

PubMed ID

  • 25744811

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 44

issue

  • 8