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The conception and evolution of a total knee joint replacement prosthesis

✍ Scribed by Larry S. Matthews

Book ID
118327021
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
99 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-9290

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In addition to pioneering a hemi-arthroplasty (described in the first part of this series of articles), Themistocles Gluck is credited with the first hinged total knee prosthesis in 1891. It was made of ivory and was held in place with a cement made from colophony, pumice and gypsum. It was said tha