Solar elbow system

Solar Elbow System (Stryker, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA)... 

Launched in 1998, the Solar Elbow System is similar to the Hospital for Special Surgery design that had been previously marketed as the Osteonics Linked Semi-Constrained Total Elbow. This device is a linked semiconstrained system with cemented titanium ulnar and humeral components. The articulation uses a UHMWPE bushing with a metal axle that locks into the lateral portion of the humeral component. A C-shaped UHMWPE bearing surface is also attached to the humeral component. The articulation is loaded centrally along a concave UHMWPE surface. The rest of the ulnar component articulates with the condylar portion of the humeral bushing at extremes of motion... 

FIGURE 10.14 Disassembled Stryker Solar Elbow System. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier [59]. 

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