{"title":"A biomechanical evaluation of metacarpal fracture fixation with absorbable polyglycolide rods","authors":"T. Maruyama, Subrata Saha, D. Mongiano, K. Mudge","doi":"10.1109/SBEC.1995.514492","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The mechanical strength of human metacarpal fractures fixed with sintered self-reinforced polyglycolide (SR-PGA) rods was evaluated. The surgical constructs were immersed in buffered saline solution and maintained at body temperature (37/spl deg/C). The initial bending stiffness of the specimens fixed with SR-PGA rods was 61% of that of Kirschner wire fixation. The bending stiffness of the specimens fixed with absorbable rods decreased with time. Most of the specimens lost their mechanical stability at four weeks.","PeriodicalId":332563,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1995 Fourteenth Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 1995 Fourteenth Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBEC.1995.514492","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The mechanical strength of human metacarpal fractures fixed with sintered self-reinforced polyglycolide (SR-PGA) rods was evaluated. The surgical constructs were immersed in buffered saline solution and maintained at body temperature (37/spl deg/C). The initial bending stiffness of the specimens fixed with SR-PGA rods was 61% of that of Kirschner wire fixation. The bending stiffness of the specimens fixed with absorbable rods decreased with time. Most of the specimens lost their mechanical stability at four weeks.
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