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Wear mechanisms of UHMWPE in total joint replacements

✍ Scribed by A. Wang; D.C. Sun; C. Stark; J.H. Dumbleton

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
949 KB
Volume
181-183
Category
Article
ISSN
0043-1648

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