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Research Article

Silent soft tissue pathology is common with a modern metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty

Early detection with routine metal artifact-reduction MRI scanning

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Pages 301-307 | Received 06 Jun 2010, Accepted 16 Dec 2010, Published online: 19 Apr 2011

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