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. 2018 Apr 5;89(2):252. doi: 10.1080/17453674.2018.1440456

Risk of cancer after primary total hip replacement: The influence of bearings, cementation and the material of the stem

A retrospective cohort study of 8,343 patients with 9 years average follow-up from Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Slovenia

Vesna Levašič 1,2, Ingrid Milošev 1,3, Vesna Zadnik 4,
PMCID: PMC5901528  PMID: 29621417

Table 1.

Number of patients in sub-cohorts (bearing surface between head and cup, cementation, material of the stem) by age at operation

Group Age group
 Subgroup 0–40 40–49 50–59 60–69 70–79 ≥ 80 Total
All 131 591 1,631 3,059 2,664 267 8,343
Bearing
 MoM 12 43 141 124 18 0 338
 MoP 39 233 763 2,128 2,481 265 5,909
 CoC 69 274 535 407 38 0 1,323
 CoP 11 41 192 400 127 2 773
Use of bone cement
 Non-cemented 119 580 1,596 2,910 1,713 48 6,966
 Cemented 12 11 35 149 951 219 1,377
Stem material
 Ti-alloy 122 585 1,610 2,980 1,940 79 7,316
 CoCr-alloy 9 5 21 67 586 162 850
 Fe-alloy 0 1 0 12 138 26 177

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