Distribution of cobalt chromium wear and corrosion products and biologic reactions

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 329, Issue SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Merritt, Katharine ^a   Brown, Stanley A ^a  

^a Ctr Devices Radiological Hlth   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COBALT; METAL; NICKEL; POLYETHYLENE; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CORROSION; JOINT FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0029814931     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199608001-00020     Document Type: Article

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