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BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE
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BlOMATERIALS SCIENCE An Introduction to Materials in Medicine
Edited by Buddy D. Ratner and Allan S. Hoffman Center for Bioengineering and Department of Chemical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, Washington
Frederick J. Schoen Department of Pathology Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts
Jack E. Lemons Departments of Biomaterials and Surgery School of Dentistry and Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama
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Cover photographs: Background is detail of grains in cold-worked 316L stainless steel showing evidence of plastic deformation. (See Chapter 2.2, courtesy of Zimmer USA, Warsaw, IN.) Inset is cardiac pacemaker with polyurethane lead tine and connector. (See Chapter 6.2, courtesy of Medtronic, Inc.)
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