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Electrical potentials between stent-grafts made from different metals induce negligible corrosion

A Kazimierczak1, W Podraza, S Lenart

  • 1Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery : the Official Journal of the European Society for Vascular Surgery
|July 23, 2013
PubMed
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Keywords:
Electrical potentialsGalvanic corrosionPitting corrosionStent-graft

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