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Original Article

The stress analysis of straight-stemmed femoral components for total hip replacements

B. Weightman Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science & Technology, Exhibition Road, I. Brown Zimmer Deloro Surgical Ltd, London, SW7 2BY, Swindon, UK
Pages 25-27 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 
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Abstract

Recent work indicates that changes to the design of total hip replacement femoral components, to reduce the magnitudes of the tensile stresses produced in their proximal-lateral surfaces, may produce unnecessarily large tensile stresses in their distal medial surfaces.

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