Harmfulness of nickel in medical metal materials.
- Author:
Yibin REN
1
;
Ke YANG
;
Yong LIANG
Author Information
1. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China. ybren@imr.ac.cn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Corrosion;
Humans;
Materials Testing;
Nickel;
adverse effects;
chemistry;
Stainless Steel;
chemistry;
Titanium;
adverse effects;
chemistry
- From:
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2005;22(5):1067-1074
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Medical metal materials is widely used in medical field due to its excellent properties; the nickel ions leaching from stainless steel because of corrosion have the harmfulness of malformation and cancerization besides allergenicity in human body. Potential harmfulness of nickel in medical metal materials and new trend on research and development are reviewed in this paper, and both the advantage and the long term potential development of nickel-free medical stainless steels are also described on the basis of our own research work.
