An attempt has been made to define the conditions with respect to movement under which
porous metal will bond to bone. It has already been shown that bone will grow into the pore of …

MATERIALS AND METHODS At the hospitals included in this survey of the Toronto and London
areas in Ontario, Canada, 700 prosthetic knees were inserted in 650 patients during the …

Using powder metallurgical techniques, cylindrical rods of a cast cobalt-base alloy (ASTM F-75)
were coated with cobalt-base alloy powder in 4 particle size ranges. The particles, …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients who had had an ICLH (Freeman-Swanson) knee
arthroplasty performed more than one year previously by the senior author were examined and …

The results of coccygectomy for coccygodynia seem not to have been correlated with etiologic
factors and were investigated in 48 cases (10 men and 38 women) with an average follow-…

MATERIALS AND METHODS Menisci were removed from the knees of 20 cadavers at
autopsy. They were fixed in 10 per cent buffered formalin, frozen for 24 hours and then freeze-…

A prospective study was carried out on the use of a proximally modular, proximal ingrowth
noncemented stem in hip revision surgery. There were 109 short stems and 211 long stems. …

An evaluation of a porous biodegradable ceramic, tricalcium phosphate, has been carried
out. When implanted in cancellous bone, it is rapidly infiltrated with bone and slowly resorbed. …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Pre-and postoperative measurements of lengthening were
performed on standardized radiographs. A line through the bottom of the teardrop was used as …

A review of the two-to six-year results of revision cases using a proximally modular noncemented
total hip replacement has been carried out. There were 91 cases. A primary stem was …