 Tantalum
"Tantalum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A rare metallic element, atomic number 73, atomic weight 180.948, symbol Ta. It is a noncorrosive and malleable metal that has been used for plates or disks to replace cranial defects, for wire sutures, and for making prosthetic devices.
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D013635
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.556.837 D01.268.956.859 D01.552.544.837
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| Concept/Terms |
Tantalum- Tantalum
- Tantalum-181
- Tantalum 181
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Tantalum" by people in Profiles.
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Snow MS, Finck MR, Carney KP, Morrison SS. Extraction chromatographic separations of tantalum and tungsten from hafnium and complex matrix constituents. J Chromatogr A. 2017 Feb 10; 1484:1-6.
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Settecase F, Nicholson AD, Amans MR, Higashida RT, Halbach VV, Cooke DL, Dowd CF, Hetts SW. Onyx embolization of an intraosseous pseudoaneurysm of the middle meningeal artery in a patient with meningiomatosis, McCune-Albright syndrome, and gray platelet syndrome. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2016 Mar; 17(3):324-9.
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Ghosh R, Hara Y, Alibabaei L, Hanson K, Rangan S, Bartynski R, Meyer TJ, Lopez R. Increasing photocurrents in dye sensitized solar cells with tantalum-doped titanium oxide photoanodes obtained by laser ablation. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2012 Sep 26; 4(9):4566-70.
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Reach JS, Dickey ID, Zobitz ME, Adams JE, Scully SP, Lewallen DG. Direct tendon attachment and healing to porous tantalum: an experimental animal study. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 May; 89(5):1000-9.
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