Psuedotumors Around Surface Replaced Hips
Scientists knew for long that body tissues’ reaction to wear products of metal-metal hip joints, compared with reaction to wear products of polyethylene or ceramic total hips, is different. Microscopic examination of tissues around the failed metal-metal total hips showed that body reacts to presence of metallic wear products by strangling the small arteries in the tissues around the metal on metal hip joints. Death of these soft tissues follows. If the patient is allergic to metals contained in the metal-metal total joint the death of the tissues may be extensive.
See also the chapter Metal-metal total hips
As yet, this finding did not arouse much attention among the surgeons who use metal-metal total hip models.
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