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HARDWARE FAILURE

  • Hardware fracture / breakage
  • Polyethylene wear
  • Polyethylene dislocation

Broken femoral stem with remodeling of the lateral femoral cortex.


Broken, frayed, and disintegrating cerclage cables


Side plate placed for periprosthetic fracture, now broken with loss of reduction of femur fracture


 

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Phalanged acetabular cup with interval fracture of the medial phalange. Note progressive osteolysis in Gruen zone 7


 

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