Link Orthopaedics

H.A. McKellop and F.-W. Shen, Wear resistant surface-gradient cross-linked polyethylene, US Patent 6494917, assigned to Orthopaedic Hospital (Los Angeles, CA) University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA), December 17, 2002. 

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Oonishi H. 1995. Long-term clinical results of THR. Clinical results of THR of an alumina head with a cross-linked UHMWPE cup. Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology 38 1255-1264. 

Collier J.P., B.H. Currier, RE. Kennedy, J.H. Currier, G.S. Timmins, S.K. Jackson, and R.L. Brewer. 2003. Comparison of cross-linked polyethylene materials for orthopaedic applications. Clin Orthop 414 289-304. 

Similar to polyorthoesters, polyanhydrides have been investigated primarily for orthopaedic applications. FFowever, the modest Young s Modulus for entangled polyanhydride networks has limited their application in weight-bearing environments [47]. This limitation resulted in further studies involving the formation of cross-linked polyanhydrides networks with incorporated imides [53,77]. Scaffolds formed... 

Greene ME, Bragdon CR, Pitcairn SB, Malchau H. A comparison of the devane and martell methods for in vivo measurement of polyethylene wear of patients with highly cross-linked polyethylene THR components. 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society. San Francisco, CA 2008. 

Furmanski J, Lehman RL, Schnaser E, Goldberg VM, Kraay MJ, Pruitt LA, et al. In vivo crack initiation in retrieved cross-linked UHMWPE acetabular liners. Transactions of the 54th Orthopaedic Research Society 2009. 

Furmanski J, Gupta S, Atwood SA, Pruitt LA. Creep behavior of cross-linked UHMWPE and its influence on clinical fracture failure of orthopaedic implants. Proceedings of the 53rd Orthopaedic Research Society, 2008. 

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