This product consists of particulated natural (ie human allograft) articular cartilage containing living cells and derived from donors under 13 years of age. It is intended for focal articular cartilage defects, and the product is fixed with fibrin, therefore not requiring a periosteal flap....

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...

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...

Zimmer Longevity Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene The Longevity is Zimmer’s highly crosslinked polyethylene insert designed for total hip arthroplasty, launched in 1999. It is available as standard, 10° elevation, 20° elevation and 7 mm offset. (Zimmer.com, accessed 13/4/11) The...

The Durom hip resurfacing is a metal-on-metal hip resurfacing introduced in 2003. The device has a Metasul® bearing, which is wrought-forged Cobalt Chrome – the Protasul-21 WF alloy. This bearing was developed by Sulzer (subsequently Centerpulse, itself acquired by Zimmer in 2003), and...