Contemporary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Hard-on-Hard Bearings and Highly Crosslinked UHMWPE

UHMWPE Biomaterials Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-79

  Kurtz, Steven M ^a   Ong, Kevin ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374721-1.00006-7     Document Type: Chapter

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