Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy analysis of emissions from cement when using ultrasonically driven tools

Sandeep B Shewale1, Raymond D Briggs

  • 1Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Stirling Royal Infirmary, Stirling, FK8 2AU, Scotland, U.K. shewalesandeep@yahoo.com

Acta Orthopaedica
|November 3, 2005
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