Table 1.

Incidence of osteolysis in the literature

Study	Implant	Imaging modality	Mean followup (years)	Incidence of osteolysis (%)
Kim [15] (2005)	Modular titanium	Plain radiography	19.4	54
Della Valle et al. [8] (2009)	Modular titanium	Plain radiography	20	33
Surdam et al. [33] (2007)	Modular titanium	Plain radiography	9	13
Kitamura et al. [16] (2005)	Monoblock titanium	CT	10.9	54
Macheras et al. [21] (2009)	Monoblock tantalum	Plain radiography	8–10	0
Meneghini et al. [24] (2009)	Monoblock tantalum	CT	7.7	0
Moen et al. [current study]	Monoblock tantalum	CT	10.3	0