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    Total Knee Replacement with Ceramic Components: Evaluation, Material Characteristics and Clinical Performance

    Since the first clinical use of ceramics in total joint arthroplasty, the material properties, manufacturing methods and implant design have been improved. This led to the development of a total knee replaceme...

    Philipp Bergschmidt Dr. med, Rainer Bader in Tribology in Total Hip and Knee Arthroplas… (2014)

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    The influence of head diameter and wall thickness on deformations of metallic acetabular press-fit cups and UHMWPE liners: a finite element analysis

    To increase the range of motion of total hip endoprostheses, prosthetic heads need to be enlarged, which implies that the cup and/or liner thickness must decrease. This may have negative effects on the wear ra...

    Paul Goebel, Daniel Kluess, Jan Wieding, Robert Souffrant in Journal of Orthopaedic Science (2013)