Is there any difference between vacuum mixing systems in reducing bone cement porosity?

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-119

  Wang, J S ^a   Toksvig Larsen, S ^a   Muller Wille P ^a   Franzen H ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HIP PROSTHESES; MIXING; POROSITY; VACUUM APPLICATIONS; VISCOSITY;

MACROPORES; MECHANICAL LOOSENING; MICROPORES; VACUUM MIXING SYSTEMS; VOIDS;

BONE CEMENT;

BONE CEMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HIP PROSTHESIS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; VISCOSITY;

BONE CEMENTS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; EVALUATION STUDIES; MATERIALS TESTING; METHYLMETHACRYLATE; METHYLMETHACRYLATES; POROSITY; POWDERS; VACUUM;

EID: 0030175699     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(199622)33:2<115::AID-JBM8>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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