Wear Evaluation Following Clinical use of Retrieved Polyethylene Mobile Inserts in Rotaglide Total Knee Replacement with a Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Topographic Method

Anastasios P Nikolaides, Fares Sayegh, Athanasios Tsakonas and Apostolos J Polyzoides
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Anastasios P Nikolaides: Senior Orthopaedic and Trauma Specialist, University of Birmingham, UK
Fares Sayegh: Professor in Trauma and Orthopaedics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Athanasios Tsakonas: Retired Consultant Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgeon, Hippokratio General Hospital, Greece
Apostolos J Polyzoides: Retired Consultant Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgeon, Solihull Hospital, UK

Orthopedics and Rheumatology Open Access Journals, 2018, vol. 13, issue 1, 9-17

Abstract: The Rotaglide Total Knee System was introduced into clinical practice in 1988. It was the first condylar Total Knee Endoprosthesis with a highly conforming mobile polyethylene insert which rotates and glides on top of a highly polished tibial component, thus theoretically reducing wear.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/OROAJ.2018.13.555853

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