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ArticleJournal of functional biomaterials2022

Low-Modulus PMMA Has the Potential to Reduce Stresses on Endplates after Cement Discoplasty.

Susanne Lewin, Peter Försth, Cecilia Persson

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Article in Journal of functional biomaterials, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. The effect of structural changes on the low strain rate behaviour of the intervertebral disc.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susanne LewinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8967-7015
Peter FörsthDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Division of Orthopedics, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden.
Cecilia PerssonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Uppsala University, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6663-6536
Uppsala University · SE

Funding

EIT Health 20519
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cement discoplasty has been developed to treat patients with advanced intervertebral disc degeneration. In discoplasty, poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) bone cement is injected into the disc, leading to reduced pain and certain spinal alignment correction. Standard PMMA-cements have much higher elastic modulus than the surrounding vertebral bone, which may lead to a propensity for adjacent fractures. A PMMA-cement with lower modulus might be biomechanically beneficial. In this study, PMMA-cements with lower modulus were obtained using previously established methods. A commercial PMMA-cement (V-steady

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bone cementdiscoplastylow-moduluslumbar spinePMMA

Identifiers

PMID35225981
PMCPMC8883899
OpenAlexW4210548302

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