Surgical stabilization of flail chest is a controversial operation, but recent data has shown that selected patients benefit from it. We describe a simple and practical method of operative stabilization of flail chest using a prosthetic mesh and methylmethacrylate anchored to the ribs and sternum. The methylmethacrylate-mesh complex is inexpensive, can be extracted electively as soon as full th...

In the present work, mechanical and fracture performance of a newly developed high-performance nanocomposite adhesive was characterized experimentally. The based on an epoxy resin, which modified with 10 wt% triblock copolymers (BCPs) including styrene-butadiene-methylmethacrylate (SBM) methylmethacrylate-butylacrylate-methylmethacrylate (MAM), ozone-functionalized graphene nanoplatelets (OZ-GN...

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A brief history of anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) surgery is useful. The first reports on ventral approaches to cervical disc pathology appeared in the 1950s. Two most common methods for ACDF were described by Robinson and Smith in 1955 (1) and Cloward in 1958 (2). Robinson and Smith described a surgical procedure for removing cervical disc material in which a rectangular bon...