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BIRMINGHAM HIP™

Resurfacing System

George Kenneth McKee

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GK McKee was a trainee with Wiles and following his appointment as Orthopaedic Surgeon in Norwich, England, began development of total hip replacement designs.He developed various uncemented prototype total hip replacements in the 1940's and 1950's. McKee presented his results to the BOA meeting in Cambridge in 1951. The results in those early days were initial relief of pain followed by loosening and mechanical failure.

Haboush 2 introduced polymethylmethacrylate for fixation of hip endoprostheses in 1953 and Charnley popularised this use of bone cement.

McKee's cement fixed McKee-Farrar THR from 1960 was the first widely used and successful THR. This THR had a Thompson stem, a chrome cobalt metal on metal articulation and both the acetabular and femoral components were fixed with cement.

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