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DURASUL components for hip and knee arthroplasty with packaging (Centerpulse Orthopedics, formerly Sulzer Orthopedics). (A) 28-mm and 38-mm diameter DURASUL acetabular liners. (B) DURASUL patellar component with packaging used for ethylene oxide sterilization. 

Kirk P. Physical properties of synovial fluid composition, theology and lubrication properties. Report No. M5874. Winterthur Sulzer Orthopedics 1997. 

Second-generation MOM designs were clinically introduced during 1988 by Sulzer Orthopedics (currently Centerpulse Orthopedics, Winterthur, Switzerland) [37, 41 3]. Sulzer s design was approved for marketing in the... 

Sulzer s second-generation MOM designs incorporated a CoCr articulating surface, but the acetabular component consisted of a modular shell and an UHMWPE liner embedded with a CoCr insert. A cross-section of the contemporary "sandwich" type design, distributed under the trade name METASUL (Centerpulse Orthopedics, Winterthur, Switzerland) is illustrated in Figure 6.5. 

This research was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (ROl AR47904), Zimmer, Sulzer, and Stryker Orthopedics. Special thanks are due to Clare Rimnac, Case Western Reserve University, for launching my research on this topic many years ago. The author also thanks Professor Luigi Costa, University of Torino, for his many helpful discussions on this topic over the years and for providing editorial input to this chapter. Thanks... 

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