title: Plastic cylindrical cement mold in the treatment of long bone metastatic fractures.
abstract: Presented here is a simple and practical surgical technique for creating a cement spacer in the cement-metal composite fixation of pathological fractures. This technique has been effectively used in several of our patients for fixation of pathological fractures due to metastatic disease of long bones.
authors: Departments of Orthopedics, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, 39 Jabotinsky Street, Petach Tikva, Israel.
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Cohen
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Shemesh
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Kosashvili
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Velkes
mesh_terms: D001843:Bone Cements; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary / Q000601:surgery*; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010969:Plastics; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate
chemical_list: D001843:Bone Cements; D010969:Plastics; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate