Biomechancal response of new femoral components for patellofemoral arthroplasty
One of the major reasons for the failure of currently available knee implants is the stress shielding effect. The implant acts as a “shield of loads”, which means that loads are not distributed throughout the bone tissue and, consequently, the rate of bone remodeling decreases. The purpose for this...
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| Format: | conferencePaper |
| Language: | por |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/12360 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/12360 |