Polyethylene synovitis
From Self-sufficiency
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Joint replacement. (Discuss) Proposed since February 2010. |
 | This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2009) |
This article may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (September 2009) Click [show] on right for more details.
No reason has been cited for the Wikify tag on this article.
|
Polyethylene synovitis is an inflammation caused by increased quantities of polyethylene wear particles in the synovial fluid of patients who have had joint replacement surgery.
These patients experience pain in the replaced joint, a swollen joint with signs of increased volume of synovial fluid, and x-ray changes demonstrating increased wear of the polyethylene components. Samples of synovial fluid taken from these patients showed that the synovial fluid was laden with polyethylene particles scratched from the polyethylene joint surfaces.
References
Cite error: Invalid <references> tag;
parameter "group" is allowed only.
<references />, or <references group="..." />External links
Categories:
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles to be merged from February 2010
- Articles with invalid date parameter in template
- All articles to be merged
- Articles lacking sources from September 2009
- All articles lacking sources
- Articles that need to be wikified from September 2009
- All articles that need to be wikified
- Inflammations
- 2Fix
