Metal Ion Concentrations in Body Fluids after Implantation of Hip Replacements with Metal-on-Metal Bearing – Systematic Review of Clinical and Epidemiological Studies

• Albrecht Hartmann,

  Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, University Centre for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Dresden, Germany

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• Franziska Hannemann,

  Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, University Centre for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Dresden, Germany, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Dresden, Germany

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• Jörg Lützner,

  Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, University Centre for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Dresden, Germany

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• Andreas Seidler,

  Affiliation Dresden University of Technology, Occupational and Social Medicine, Dresden, Germany

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• Hans Drexler,

  Affiliation University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Erlangen, Germany

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• Klaus-Peter Günther ,

  * E-mail: Klaus-Peter.Guenther@uniklinikum-dresden.de

  Affiliation University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, University Centre for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Dresden, Germany

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• Jochen Schmitt

  Affiliations University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Dresden, Germany, Dresden University of Technology, Occupational and Social Medicine, Dresden, Germany

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