Fracture of two successive Ring TiMESH cemented hip prostheses.
We report the unfortunate case of a man who experienced stem failures of both his primary and revision hip arthroplasties. As far as we are aware this is the only reported case of a patient to suffer the misfortune of multiple femoral implant failures.
Gardiner
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MD
St. Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, UK. mdgardiner@gmail.com
Macdowell
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AD