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(redirected from Bone cement)

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Chapter topics include: advances in development and applications of nanofiber materials, resistive chemical sensors from metal oxides nanocrystals synthesized in organic solvents, nanoparticles and enzymes, electrochemical synthesis of colloidal gold nanoparticles, and acrylic bone cements incorporated with montmorillonite.
The team led by orthopaedic researcher Joyce Keyak has found that injecting radioactive bone cement into the vertebral body may help thwart cancer metastases to spine.
Vertebroplasty is an invasive spine procedure that involves the injection of bone cement under fluoroscopic or computed tomographic (CT) guidance into a vertebral body that has been damaged as a result of either an osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture or neoplastic infiltration.
 
 
 
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