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Metal-on-metal hip implants

In 2011, the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate (the Inspectorate) started an investigation prompted by growing signs of clinical problems with metal-on-metal hip implants. The investigation involved collecting and studying information about problems involving metal-on-metal hip implants, analysing incident reports received by the Inspectorate and an assessment of the product files requested from the manufacturers of such implants.  Read more here.

Last modified: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:46:25 GMT