Acrylic bone cement: its clinical development and current status in Japan.
This article describes the transition of annual total sales figures of bone cement in Japan during the last 12 years, bone cement-related complications, the present status of bone cement application in Japan as surveyed by the Implant Committee of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association, and its proposed precautions to be taken for the prevention of bone cement complications.
Yamamuro
Takao
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Research Institute for Production Development, 15 Morimoto-Cho, Shimogamo, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-0805, Japan.
D001178:Arthroplasty; D001843:Bone Cements / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D040541:Marketing; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000191:economics*
D001843:Bone Cements; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate