Process for the preparation of a powder mixture for surgical use

US4456711A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BEIERSDORF AG · DE

Inventors

• Hanns Pietsch · Hamburg, DE
• Volker Hohmann · Oldenburg, DE
• Willi Eckloff · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 1982
• Grant date: Jun 26, 1984
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L2430/02
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A powder mixture for surgical use, containing a methyl methacrylate homopolymer and/or copolymer powder, an X-ray contrast medium powder and a polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerization initiator is present as a combination product with the polymer powder or the X-ray contrast medium. This powder mixture is suitable for the preparation of surgical compositions which harden and are based on polymethyl methacrylate or its copolymers.