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

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: Girish N. Swamy, Conal Quah, Elmunzar Bagouri, Nitin P. Badhe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Orthopedics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/896348
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