SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 2003
STP11130S

Corrosion on Spinal Implant Constructs: Should Standards Be Revised?

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Corrosion is known to occur on modular spinal implants but design features such and material, surface finish, and interconnection characteristics have not been related to corrosion. Literature review was combined with retrieval analysis of thirty-three constructs to identify which design features were associated with corrosion. Corrosion was found consistently on implants where stainless steel components with differing surface finishes (Matte and polished) were designed with rigid interconnections. No clear direction for new standards activity was identified.

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Kirkpatrick, JS
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Venugolopalan, R
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Bibbs, M
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Lemons, JE
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Beck, P
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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Developed by Committee: F04
Pages: 40–43
DOI: 10.1520/STP11130S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5480-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-3463-8