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This book enables readers without specialist knowledge to understandthe ways in which materials can be used to enhance people's lives. Therange is vast from simple contact uses, through artificial limbs,to permanently implanted devices.

Plastics in medicine. --- Plastics in surgery. --- Surgery --- Polymers in medicine

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Total knee replacement. --- Bone cements. --- Orthopedic surgery. --- Operative orthopedics --- Orthopedics --- Surgery, Operative --- Acrylic resins --- Adhesives in surgery --- Plastics in surgery --- Knee replacement, Total --- Total knee arthroplasty --- Arthroplasty --- Knee --- Artificial knee --- Surgery

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This new edition of the well-regarded original has been thoroughly revised by Drs. John M. Mathis, Hervé Deramond, and Stephen M. Belkoff to reflect recent advances in percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. Obsolete sections have been judiciously replaced with cutting-edge material, such as an in-depth look at the latest bone cements and devices. Chapters outline spine anatomy, medical management, and patient selection. The addition of practical and challenging case studies furthers the focus of the previous edition by bridging the gap between theory and practice for spine interventionalists, radiologists, neuroradiologists, orthopedic surgeons, and neurosurgeons. The text is enhanced by a wealth of illustrations. Featured in the Second Edition: * New data on alternate routes for therapy, sacroplasty, and treating tumors * New treatment techniques * Updated examination of biomechanics * New material on complications * New figures and color images * Inclusion of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty cases * Expanded presentation of ACR and SIR care standards.

Spine --- Bone cements. --- Fracture fixation. --- Surgery. --- Fractures. --- Fixation of fractures --- Skeletal fixation (Surgery) --- Fractures --- Acrylic resins --- Adhesives in surgery --- Plastics in surgery --- Backbone --- Columna vertebralis --- Spinal column --- Vertebral column --- Back --- Bones --- Skeleton --- Treatment --- Radiology, Medical. --- Interventional radiology. --- Orthopedics. --- Neurosurgery. --- Neuroradiology. --- Interventional Radiology. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Nerves --- Neurosurgery --- Orthopaedics --- Orthopedia --- Surgery --- Radiology, Interventional --- Medical radiology --- Therapeutics --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Interventional radiology . --- Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation --- Neuroradiography --- Neuroradiology --- Nervous system --- Diseases

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This book provides an overview of the composition of polymeric and ceramic bone cements. It also discusses complex, biomimetic structures based on biomaterials, such as cells and bioactive molecules, which more closely resemble natural bone The first chapter describes the main concepts of the cementation process and the parameters affecting it, while the second chapter focuses on the composition and structure of candidate biomaterials. Lastly, the third and fourth chapters present recent research aimed at improving the ability of naked biomaterials to enhance bone healing by adding cells and bioactive agents.

Medical physics. --- Radiation. --- Biomaterials. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Medical and Radiation Physics. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Biocompatible materials --- Biomaterials --- Medical materials --- Biomedical engineering --- Materials --- Biocompatibility --- Prosthesis --- Physics --- Radiology --- Health physics --- Health radiation physics --- Medical radiation physics --- Radiotherapy physics --- Radiation therapy physics --- Bone cements. --- Acrylic resins --- Adhesives in surgery --- Plastics in surgery --- Bioartificial materials --- Hemocompatible materials --- Biomaterials (Biomedical materials) --- Biomedical materials.