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Bony Abnormalities
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HARDWARE FAILURE

Hardware fracture / breakage
Polyethylene wear
Polyethylene dislocation

Broken femoral stem with remodeling of the lateral femoral cortex.

Broken, frayed, and disintegrating cerclage cables

Side plate placed for periprosthetic fracture, now broken with loss of reduction of femur fracture


6/97	11/02

Phalanged acetabular cup with interval fracture of the medial phalange. Note progressive osteolysis in Gruen zone 7