Biodegradable Implants

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- Discussion:
    - polyglycolide (PGA)
          - degradation time is a few months
          - patients may develop severe inflammatory reactions and osteolytic bone changes;
    - poly-L-lactide (PLA)
          - degradation time is a few years
          - patients may develop inflammatory reactions from this material, but the reactions are
                  usually delayed due to the slow degradation time;

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Fixation with Bioabsorbable Screws for the Treatment of Fractures of the Ankle.

Surgical treatment of fracture-dislocations of the ankle joint with biodegradable implants: a prospective randomized study.

Biodegradable fixation of ankle fractures. Complications in a prospective study of 25 cases.

Intense granulomatous inflammatory lesions associated with absorbable internal fixation devices made of polyglycolide in ankle fractures.

Osteolytic changes accompanying degradation of absorbable fracture fixation implants.

Biodegradable internal fixation for malleolar fractures. A prospective randomised trial.

Biodegradable implants in fracture fixation: early results of treatment of fractures of the ankle.

Ankle fractures treated using biodegradable internal fixation.

Fracture fixation with biodegradable rods. Forty-one cases of severe ankle fractures.

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