bone cement

The bone cement was used in about 200 spine patients.

He said the bone cements are expected to reduce both recovery times and healthcare costs.

"The difference between the first generation implants and those today is that you don't need to use bone cement.

Bone cement often is used to keep bone implants in place.

Grade C: a radiolucency of more than 50% at the bone cement interface.

In medicine, it is used in bone cement and to replace eye lenses.

This makes bone cement a modern drug delivery system that delivers the required drugs directly to the surgical site.

The pin was held in place by an organic resin, analogous to modern bone cement.

Artificial joints (referred to as prostheses) are anchored with bone cement.

Cementing Bone cements are made up of two primary components:

During the procedure, hot bone cement is injected into the collapsed or cracked vertebra.

The individual components of the bone cement are also known in the area of dental filler materials.

None of the surgeons could rule out the bone cement as a factor in the deaths, but it also wasn't definitively blamed for them.

Percutaneous osteoplasty involves the use of bone cement to reduce pain and improve mobility.

Bone cements are already used to strengthen damaged vertebrae of patients with diseases such as osteoporosis.

Bone cement has long been approved for many medical uses, but this particular use had not been tested against a placebo procedure until now.

Bone cement has proven particularly useful because specific active substances, e.g. antibiotics, can be added to the powder component.

Isothermal and non-isothermal polymerization of a new bone cement.

Bone cement acts like a grout and not so much like a glue in arthroplasty.

More recently bone cement has been use in the spine in either vertebroplasty or kyphoplasty procedures.

Orthopaedic bone cement in total hip replacement.

Bone cements are provided as two-component materials.

The patients who died suffered severe hypotension, or low blood pressure, following injections of Norian bone cement, authorities said.

His first attempt consisted in introducing antibiotics such as gentamicin into the bone cement; the number of bacteria decreased but not enough.

Comprehensive clinical tests of the compatibility of bone cements with the body were conducted before their use in surgery.