What Is Bone Cement?

Bone cement is a common name for bone cement. Bone cement is a medical material used in orthopedic surgery. Due to its physical properties and the appearance and properties after solidification, it is similar to white cement used in construction and decoration. Popular name.

What is bone cement

Joints are the hub of human movement. Due to trauma or disease, they may be "discarded". At this time, doctors often remove the "discarded" joints and replace them with artificial joints. Human joints are vital organs, and artificial joints replaced are all non-viable prostheses. How to live by the dead, "make false come true", firmly connect the two, and keep them from loosening over time? Doctors want to invent a special material, which is used to fix artificial joints.

Bone cement application case

Hubei's first use of "bone cement" to seal cervical spine in patients with tumor remodeling

2006 09 09 07:25 Jingchu.com-Hubei Daily

A patient's cervical spine was invaded and destroyed by tumor tissue. The chief physician of the Department of Orthopaedics of Central South Hospital Xu Zhenhua closed the tumor with "bone cement" and propped up the cervical spine. According to reports, this is the first time in our province to apply "bone cement" to the cervical vertebra. Mr. Fang, 50, went to the hospital due to neck pain and limited mobility. He was diagnosed as a vertebral hemangioma by magnetic resonance examination. The tumor tissue completely invaded the 7th vertebral body, which could invade the nerves and spinal cord at any time, causing paralysis. Because the cervical spine is in the "heavy ground" of blood vessels, nerves, and spinal cords, it is called a "prohibited area" for surgery. After research, Xu Zhenhua decided to use "bone cement" for vertebroplasty.

On the 6th, the surgeon first punctured the vertebra with a 4 mm thick puncture needle into the vertebral body of the patient, and injected the "bone cement" into the lesion with the puncture needle. The higher temperature "bone cement" not only killed tumor cells, It also solidifies the tumor after cooling and strengthens the vertebral body. The patient's pain symptoms gradually eased. It is understood that "bone cement" technology is mostly used for the treatment of lumbar spine and other diseases, and it is the first time that it has been used in the cervical spine in our province. ^[3]