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The Proxima Short Stem from Depuy is a proximally loading short stem hip prosthesis made of forged titanium alloy, with a Duofix™ porous coating and hydroxyapatite surface coating. It is available in nine sizes with standard and high-offset variants. The paper by Toth (1) gives several...
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Designed by Morrey in 1984, this conservative bone preserving femoral component has the longest track record in short stem devices. This is a neck-retaining device. The Mayo stem has a proximal wide trapezoidal cross-section in order to gain multipoint contact within cortical bone, and is wedge...
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The Metha Short Hip Stem is a modular femoral stem designed for metaphyseal anchorage in the proximal femur. The curved stem has a rounded tip and sits against the dorsolateral cortex of the proximal femur. There is no collar. It varies in length from 9.75 to 12.25cm. The modularity allows the...
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The Zimmer Fitmore stem system is a curved, short (44 to 60 mm in length), uncemented femoral stem with a trapezoidal cross section and triple taper geometry, available since 2008. The device is manufactured from Zimmer’s Protasul™ titanium alloy, has a proximal Ti-plasma coating and...
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The Corin MiniHip is a short-stemmed uncemented device intended to be more conservative on the femoral side than conventional femoral components, and requiring a mid-neck resection. The system is compatible with Corin’s Cormet resurfacing, and total hip systems, allowing some...
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