de la Caffiniere
Ball-and-socket (historic)
What it is made of
- Design type
- Ball-and-socket (historic)
How well it holds up (published data)
| What | Result | Follow-up | Patients | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implant survival | not reported in our evidence base | |||
| Revision / removal | 14.5% failure rate (pooled); loosening 38.2% | mean 68 months | n = 144 (pooled) | Holme et al., systematic review, EFORT Open Rev 2021 |
Each number links to the study it comes from. "not reported in our evidence base" means we checked our sources and none gives that figure. We never fill a gap with a guess.
The studies behind this implant (1)
- [The De La Caffiniere trapezo-metacarpal prosthesis in rhizarthrosis of the thumb. Apropos of 20 cases surgically treated between 1978 and 1990] (1994) · doi