… may correlate more accurately with the histology than serum metal ion levels [7]. Our results
do not support that hypothesis. We found that tissue metal concentrations as well as whole …

… Nevertheless, this finding does not exclude individual cases … that the serum metal ion level
did not exclude this diagnosis.24 … in the short-term group were outside of the predicted trend. …

… did not support the hypothesis that tissue metal concentrations … help predict the damage
location on polyethylene inserts. … would be correlated with inflammatory cytokines in the serum…

… We hypothesized that Co and Cr concentrations in synovial … blood, and that joint fluid
concentrations of these metals might not … that the whole blood, serum, and synovial fluid metal ion …

… periprosthetic tissues with metal ion levels. Lohmann et al. [22] found that metal ion levels
did not predict the type of tissue … They noted that the metal content of periprosthetic tissues …

… between periprosthetic concentrations of selected metals and changes induced in …
Periprosthetic tissue metal content but not serum metal content predicts the type of tissue re…

… metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements. ARMD consists of a wide range of alterations in
periprosthetic tissues, most important of which are … and synovial fluid metal ion concentrations, …

… (3) Are cobalt and chromium serum levels or the cobalt-… The data suggest that a cut off level
of 1.71 for the cobalt-chromium-… Periprosthetic osteolysis and resulting aseptic loosening are …

… and tends to retain in the periprosthetic soft tissue [26], whereas … The effect of this process
is a shift of serum metal ion levels … found that presence of bilateral MoM–THA predicts higher …

… , the use of titanium in total joint arthroplasty (TJA) is predicted to rise. Blood titanium …
concentration in the serum (0.6 μg L −1 ) [89], plasma (1.6 μg L −1 ) [90] and periprosthetic tissue (…