An orthopedic surgeon testifying at a trial over Johnson & Johnson’s ASR hip implants described tissue colored black with metal debris around the hip joint as the “signature injury” of the devices.
According to a story in the Newark Star Ledger, Dr. Craig Swenson of La Jolla, Calif., refers to the blackened tissue around the artificial hip joints as the “black hole.”
The trial in Los Angeles is the first of 10,000 ...
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