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ReviewOrthopaedic surgery2024

Progress in the Application of Porous Tantalum Metal in Hip Joint Surgery.

Kaiming Ma, Zhijie Ma, Liangliang Cheng, Dewei Zhao

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Review in Orthopaedic surgery, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Threaded cup in total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review of long-term survivorship.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kaiming MaOrthopaedic of Department, Affiliated ZhongShan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China.
Zhijie MaOrthopaedic of Department, Affiliated ZhongShan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5228-3493
Liangliang ChengOrthopaedic of Department, Affiliated ZhongShan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China.
Dewei ZhaoOrthopaedic of Department, Affiliated ZhongShan Hospital of Dalian University, Dalian, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8611-0558

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2022M720616National Natural Science Foundation of China - State Grid Corporation Joint Fund for Smart Grid 82172398
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Porous tantalum metal is a new orthopedic implant material made of tantalum metal that has been processed by porous treatment. This material has various advantages, including high hardness, good ductility, good biocompatibility, and strong bone integration ability. Porous tantalum metal has performed well in clinical application, demonstrating excellent medium- to long-term curative effects. The use of implant products made of porous tantalum metal, such as porous tantalum rods, porous tantalum hip prostheses, and porous tantalum augments (MAs), is gradually increasing in the clinical application of hip surgery, and these products have achieved excellent therapeutic effects in the middle and late stages of various hip diseases. In recent years, the combined application of porous tantalum metal and three-dimenional (3D) printing technology to create personalized 3D-printed porous tantalum metal has led to new development directions for the treatment of complex hip joint surgical diseases. This review presents a summary of the application of porous tantalum metal in hip surgery in recent years, including clinical treatment effects and existing problems. In addition, the prospect of progress in this field is promoted.

Indexed as

Arthroplasty, Replacement, HipHip ProsthesisProsthesis DesignTantalumHumansPorosityPrinting, Three-DimensionalTantalumArthroplastyHip JointHip‐PreservingPorous TantalumTreatment Strategy

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PMID39412173
PMCPMC11608769

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