Open Access

Table 2

Association of blood chromium and cobalt levels with imaging findings.

Cobalt (n = 97)
Chromium (n = 97)
<7 µg/L (n = 54) >7 µg/L (n = 43) P value <7 µg/L (n = 69) >7 µg/L (n = 28) P value*
Periprosthetic lucency on radiographs (n = 9) 2 (3.7%) 7 (16.3%) 0.042 3 (4.3%) 6 (21.4%) 0.036
ARMD (n = 61) 26 (48.1%) 35 (81.4%) <0.001 38 (55.1%) 23 (82.1%) 0.004
Abnormal Acetabular Inclination (n = 24) 10 (18.5%) 14 (32.5%) 0.114 16 (23.2%) 8 (28.6%) 0.588
Abnormal Acetabular anteversion (n = 9) 4 (7.4%) 5 (11.6%) 0.485 6 (8.7%) 3 (10.7%) 0.765
*

Test used Pearson’s Chi Square test for Independence of Attributes/Fisher’s Exact Test as appropriate.

Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.

Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.

Initial download of the metrics may take a while.