Imaging of ceramic liner fractures in total hip arthroplasty: the value of CT.
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.
Department of Radiology and Imaging, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA.
Yoshimi
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Endo
Lisa
L
Renner
Tom
T
Schmidt-Braekling
Douglas N
DN
Mintz
Friedrich
F
Boettner
D000328:Adult; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation; D002516:Ceramics / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*