Remelting of highly cross-linked polyethylene worn under laboratory conditions

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 465, Issue , 2007, Pages 128-132

  Lazzarini, Adam M ^a   Cottrell, Jocelyn M ^a   Padgett, Douglas E ^a   Wright, Timothy M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS LINKING; HEAT TREATMENT; HIP; IRRADIATION; LABORATORY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HEAT; HIP PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT; HIP PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 37349051414     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e318157601c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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