Bone Research

Research from Nihon University, Medical Department has provided new data on bone research

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 29th, 2009

According to a study from Tokyo, Japan, "As for being cautious with tumor prostheses, revision of uncemented tumor prostheses in particular, it is necessary to remove cortical bone from the stem circumference with a chisel when the stem is extracted. This assures that bone in-growth will occur within the stem in itself."

"As a result, re-substitution of mass autogenous bone graft round a new stem is subsequently necessary. When rivision of uncemented tumor prosthesis of distal femur was performed, we evade fibula transplant by transplanting interconnected porous hydroxyapatite ceramic (IP-CA: Neobone) with a self bone, and reports its experience with the case that...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-12-29)

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