Download or read book Stainless Steels for Medical and Surgical Applications written by Gary L. Winters and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covered a wide range of topics on stainless steels with most of the presentations dealing with narrow segments of a specific topic. Therefore, a single theme of the presentations may be that work on stainless steels for medical uses continues and that stainless steels may be part of the answers for some of the issues facing the surgical community today, such as biological response, corrosion resistance, mechanical performance, quality and cost.