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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 100-B, Issue SUPP_3 | Pages 14 - 14
1 Apr 2018
Teoh KH Whitham R Golding D Lee PYF Evans A
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Background

The R3 cementless acetabular system (Smith & Nephew, Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is a modular titanium shell with an asymmetric porous titanium powder coating. It supports cross-linked polyethylene, metal and ceramic liners with several options for the femoral head component. The R3 cup was first marketed in Australia and Europe in 2007. Two recent papers have shown high failure rates of the MoM R3 system with up to 24% (Dramis et al 2014, Hothi et al 2015). There are currently no medium term clinical papers on the R3 acetabular cup.

Objectives

The aim of the study is to review our results of the R3 acetabular cup with a minimum of 5 year follow up.