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Imaging barium-free bone cement
D A Fehrman1, A A McBeath, A A DeSmet
1Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
American Journal of Orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.)
|February 1, 1996
Abstract:
Prior to 1972, polymethylmethacrylate, or PMMA, did not contain barium sulfate and was, therefore, radiolucent. We describe a technique using magnetic resonance imaging that is very useful in imaging barium-free PMMA.