Bearing-Foreign Material Deposition on Retrieved Co-Cr Femoral Heads: Composition and Morphology

Figure 5

EDS data from a clean area on head A and from the deposit areas on heads A and B. The sites from which these data were collected are noted by asterisks () in Figure 1. Similar data were collected from deposit areas of all heads (sites marked with in Figure 1), displaying peaks indicating the additional presence of bearing-foreign elements Ti, Al, V, Ca, and P.

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