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Life-enhancing plastics : plastics and other materials in medical applications / Anthony Holmes-Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes-Walker, William Anthony.
- Series:
- Series on biomaterials and bioengineering ; v. 2.
- Series on biomaterials and bioengineering ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plastics in medicine.
- Plastics in surgery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book enables readers without specialist knowledge to understandthe ways in which materials can be used to enhance people's lives. Therange is vast from simple contact uses, through artificial limbs,to permanently implanted devices.
- Contents:
- Life-Enhancing Plastics: Plastics and Other Materials in Medical Applications; Preface; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Surgical Techniques; Chapter 2 Material Properties; Chapter 3 Materials in a Hostile Environment; Chapter 4 Contact Applications; Chapter 5 Short Term Contact Devices; Chapter 6 Medium Term Implants; Chapter 7 Permanent Implants; Chapter 8 Load-bearing Implants; Chapter 9 The Tools of the Surgeon; Chapter 10 Meeting New Challenges; Further Reading; Index of Names; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611866488
- 9781281866486
- 1281866482
- 9781860945427
- 1860945422
- OCLC:
- 475937085
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