Imaging of ceramic liner fractures in total hip arthroplasty: the value of CT.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Ceramics
- Equipment Failure Analysis
- Foreign-Body Migration
- Hip Prosthesis
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Anatomy
- hip