Seminars in Arthroplasty
Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 134-140, September 2006

Ceramic Total Knee Arthroplasty: Advanced Clinical Experiences of 26 Years

  • Hironobu Oonishi, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • H. Oonishi Memorial Joint Replacement Institute, Tominaga Hospital, Osaka.
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to H. Oonishi, MD, PhD, H. Oonishi Memorial Joint Replacement Institute, Tominaga Hospital, 4-48, 1-chome, Minato-machi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, 556-0017 Japan.
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  • Hiroyuki Oonishi, MD

      Affiliations

    • H. Oonishi Memorial Joint Replacement Institute, Tominaga Hospital, Osaka.
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  • Sok Chol Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • H. Oonishi Memorial Joint Replacement Institute, Tominaga Hospital, Osaka.
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  • Masayuki Kyomoto

      Affiliations

    • Japan Medical Materials Corporation, Osaka.
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  • Mikio Iwamoto

      Affiliations

    • Japan Medical Materials Corporation, Osaka.
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  • Shingo Masuda

      Affiliations

    • Japan Medical Materials Corporation, Osaka.
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  • Masaru Ueno, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Japan Medical Materials Corporation, Osaka.

We started to use a combination of alumina ceramics and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in the late 1970s based on our good clinical results in total hip arthroplasty as well as the results of knee joint simulator tests. From 1982 to 1985, we performed TKAs in 137 patients, mainly of the alumina/UHMWPE type. Since 1990, cemented alumina or zirconia ceramic/UHMWPE total knee prostheses have been used in more than 530 patients. From these clinical and retrieved studies, we confirmed the efficacy of the ceramic bearing surface in TKA.

Keywords: alumina, UHMWPE, total knee arthroplasty, outcomes

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PII: S1045-4527(06)00056-3

doi:10.1053/j.sart.2006.09.007

Seminars in Arthroplasty
Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 134-140, September 2006

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