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Orthopaedic Bone Cements
Author(s): S. Deb (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 16 Oct. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 424 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845693760
- ISBN-13: 9781845693763
Book Description
Key Features: provides a review of recent research focussing on improving the mechanical and biological performance of bone cements; discusses the current applications of bone cements particularly in hip replacement, verteboplasty and wear particles; reviews types of materials and acrylic, polymethlymethacrylate and calcium phosphate as types of cements; addresses mechanical properties of bone cements such as fracture toughness; examines methods to enhance the properties of bone cements.
Part 1 Bone cements in medicine: Bone disease; Hip replacements; Knee replacements; Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty; Antibiotic-impregnated polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) spacers in hip surgery; Commercial aspects and delivery systems of bone cements; Wear particles and osteolysis. Part 2 Materials: Acrylic bone cement: Genesis and evolution; Poly(methylmethacrylate) bone cement: Chemical composition and chemistry; Calcium phosphate bone cements. Part 3 Properties of bone cements: Mechanical properties of bone cements; Fracture toughness and fatigue characteristics of bone cements; Dynamic creep in bone cements. Part 4 Enhancing the properties of bone cements; Antibiotic-loaded bone cements; Modifications of bone cements; Design of bioactive bone cement based on organic-inorganic hybrids; Clinical aspects of calcium phosphate bone cements.
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From the Back Cover
Part one discusses the current uses of orthopaedic bone cements with chapters on such topics as hip replacements, verteboplasty and wear particles and osteolysis. Part two reviews materials and types of cement such as acrylic, polymethylmethacrylate and calcium phosphate cements. Chapters in Part three address the mechanical properties of bone cements such as fracture toughness and dynamic creep. The final section examines methods to enhance the properties of bone cements with coverage of themes such as antibiotic loaded bone cements and bioactive cements.
With its eminent editor and multidisciplinary team of international contributors, Orthopaedic bone cements will be an invaluable reference for materials scientists, medical researchers and all those involved in the development of bone cements for orthopaedic applications and joint replacement.
