The use of dissimilar metals in surgery
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Mears, D. C.
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Article
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1975
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Previously, the use of dissimilar metals for the construction of surgical implants has been strongly discouraged because the combination of metals was likely to provoke more rapid corrosion of one metal. With the passive alloys that are in present and future application, however, a reco