Human bone ingrowth into a porous tantalum acetabular cup

Porous Tantalum is increasingly used as a structural scaffold in orthopaedic applications. Information on the mechanisms of human bone ingrowth into trabecular metal implants is rather limited. In this work we have studied, qualitatively, human bone ingrowth into a retrieved porous tantalum monobloc...

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Main Authors: Gregory N. Haidemenopoulos, Kostantinos N. Malizos, Anna D. Zervaki, and Kostantinos Bargiotas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2017-11-01
Series:AIMS Materials Science
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Online Access:http://www.aimspress.com/Materials/article/1710/fulltext.html