Monday, 2 April 2012

Hip implant 'has high fail rate'

2 April 2012
Last updated at 17:53











By Jane Hughes
Health correspondent, BBC News



10.7% of implants had to be revised within four years of implantation.


Surgeons have been warned to stop using a particular type of metal-on-metal hip implant because it has an "unacceptably" high failure rate.
The UK health regulator, the MHRA,

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