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Reaction to a joint prosthesis. (A) Foreign body giant cells surround a pool of acrylic cement (right) and fragments of high-molecularweight polyethylene (left). On polarization (B), the cement is not birefringent, but unsuspectedly large amounts of polyethylene are revealed.