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Postoperative assessment and management of metallosis and periprosthetic osteolysis in patients treated with metal-on-polyethylene total wrist prostheses
We analysed the relationship between serum metal ions, radiological periprosthetic osteolysis and the clinical features in a series of 25 patients treated with fourth-generation metal-on-polyethylene total wrist prostheses. The mean implant follow-up was 7 years. Our results show that titanium was the main elevated serum metal ion in patients with the prostheses that we used; elevated serum cobalt or chromium values were infrequent. The risk of loosening was higher in an implant older than 6 years, with more than five periprosthetic osteolysis points according to our radiograph zone system, and serum titanium values between 26 to 31 µg/L. The presence of metallosis pseudotumours does not guarantee but increases the risk of implant failure, which may be asymptomatic or associated with little pain.
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