From Ethylene Gas to UHMWPE Component: The Process of Producing Orthopedic Implants

UHMWPE Biomaterials Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 7-19

  Kurtz, Steven M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374721-1.00002-X     Document Type: Chapter

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