NEN-ISO 17853
Wear of implant materials - Polymer and metal wear particles - Isolation, characterization and quantification
| Organization: | NEN |
| Publication Date: | 1 August 2003 |
| Status: | inactive |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| ICS Code (Implants for surgery, prosthetics and orthotics): | 11.040.40 |
scope:
This International Standard specifies methods for sampling wear debris generated by total joint prostheses in humans and in joint simulators. It specifies the apparatus, reagents and test methods to isolate, characterize and quantify both polymer and metal wear debris from samples of tissue excised from around the joint prosthesis, obtained at revision surgery or post mortem, and from samples of joint-simulator test fluids.
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