We have observed no wear on retrieved Birmingham Hip Resurfacing bearings.

Birmingham Hip Resurfacing showing porous ingrowth surface.

Please clarify coding of a hip replacement using Birmingham Hip Resurfacing prosthetics.

Patient indications for Birmingham Hip Resurfacing: There are several conventional total hip replacement systems that have been proven to work well in elderly inactive patients.

Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) is a comprehensive system to address the needs of almost all sizes of patient and those with acetabular deficiency.

This Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR), as it is known, is particularly suitable for younger patients and long-lasting, with a 98 per cent success rate.

Over the following years, McMinn further improved the design and operative technique, eventually developing the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR).

The group's hips business continued to lag however, with sales down 2 percent, largely because its Birmingham Hip Resurfacing technology suffered from an association with other problematic metal-on-metal implants.

But Mr. Gaynor, now 45, has been able to resume some of his former activities because of a new surgical implant called the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing System, an alternative to total hip replacement.

In 2006, the United States FDA approved hip resurfacing using the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) system, designed by British Orthopaedic surgeon Derek McMinn.

Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) acetabular cups manufactured by Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics Ltd. (see Appendix for affected lot numbers).