PMMA Bone Cement in Interventional Oncology. 2021

Julien Garnon, and L Meylheuc, and J Jennings, and G Koch, and R Cazzato, and B Bayle, and A Gangi
University Hospital Strasbourg, Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France.

Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cement is increasingly being used for percutaneous minimally invasive treatments of patients suffering from bone malignancies. PMMA is composed of a polymeric powder and a monomeric liquid. Once mixed, the polymerization process begins and leads to a viscous fluid that can be injected through a bone trocar. Cement progressively hardens within the bone, leading to a viscoelastic solid material. PMMA interacts with the surrounding cancellous bone through mechanical interlocking via interdigitations in trabecular bone. It can also bond with hardware, such as titanium screws, as it penetrates the macro- and micro-irregularities of the hardware. PMMA itself has no antineoplastic effects but may be used as a stand-alone treatment to provide pain palliation and bone consolidation through mechanical reinforcement, notably in areas with high compression load. It can also be used to reinforce the anchorage of screws in case of a landing zone with poor bone quality due to underlying malignant osteolysis.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011108 Polymers Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., BIOPOLYMERS; PLASTICS). Polymer
D001843 Bone Cements Adhesives used to fix prosthetic devices to bones and to cement bone to bone in difficult fractures. Synthetic resins are commonly used as cements. A mixture of monocalcium phosphate, monohydrate, alpha-tricalcium phosphate, and calcium carbonate with a sodium phosphate solution is also a useful bone paste. Bone Cement,Bone Glues,Bone Pastes,Bone Glue,Bone Paste,Cement, Bone,Cements, Bone,Glue, Bone,Glues, Bone,Paste, Bone,Pastes, Bone
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014783 Viscosity The resistance that a gaseous or liquid system offers to flow when it is subjected to shear stress. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed) Viscosities
D019904 Polymethyl Methacrylate Polymerized methyl methacrylate monomers which are used as sheets, moulding, extrusion powders, surface coating resins, emulsion polymers, fibers, inks, and films (From International Labor Organization, 1983). This material is also used in tooth implants, bone cements, and hard corneal contact lenses. PMMA,Polymethylmethacrylate,Acron,Acrylic Bone Cement,CMW Bone Cement,Implast,Kallocryl K,Lucite,Methyl Acrylic Plastic,Palacos R,Palavit,Perspex,Plexiglas,Plexiglass,Poly(methyl methacrylate),Polymethyl Methacrylate, Isostatic,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Simplex Opaque,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Surgical Simplex Bone Cement, Ammonium Salt,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Surgical Simplex P,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Syndiostatic,Polymethylmetacrylate,Sol,Superacryl,Isostatic Polymethyl Methacrylate,Methacrylate, Polymethyl,Methacrylate, Syndiostatic Polymethyl,Syndiostatic Polymethyl Methacrylate

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