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Case Reports
. 2011 Jun;82(3):386-8.
doi: 10.3109/17453674.2011.579521. Epub 2011 Apr 20.

Pain in a chromium-allergic patient with total knee arthroplasty: disappearance of symptoms after revision with a special surface-coated TKA--a case report

Marc Thomsen  1 , Matthias Rozak, Peter Thomas
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Case Reports

Pain in a chromium-allergic patient with total knee arthroplasty: disappearance of symptoms after revision with a special surface-coated TKA--a case report

Marc Thomsen et al. Acta Orthop. 2011 Jun.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Eczematous reaction after TKA.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
ZrN-CrN-CrCN multilayer coating.
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