MANCHESTER — Surgeons can use MRI and ultrasound equipment to detect metallosis in potential metal-on-metal total hip replacement revision patients, but researchers from the United Kingdom recommend taking patient symptoms into consideration as well, according to a recent presentation.
“Although ultrasound and MRI are useful in the treating of MoM patients, there is a significant percentage of hips that have pain with negative radiology findings,” Naveed Ahmed, of the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom, stated in his presentation at the British Orthopaedic Association Meeting, here.
More »