Should the galvanic combination of titanium and stainless steel surgical implants be avoided?

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-169

  Høl, Paul Johan ^a,b   Mølster, Anders ^a,b   Gjerdet, Nils Roar ^a,b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bone plates; Fretting; Galvanic corrosion; Materials testing; Principal component analysis; Stainless steel; Titanium

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; NICKEL; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CORROSION; FIXATION DEVICE; FRACTURE; IMPLANTATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CORROSION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MATERIALS TESTING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STAINLESS STEEL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TITANIUM;

EID: 38749086441     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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