Surgical material

US4902728A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BEIERSDORF AG · DE

Inventors

• Hanns Pietsch · Hamburg, DE
• Karl G. Doppler · Lübeck, DE
• Barbara Krug · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Meyer-Ingold · Hamburg, DE
• Ingrid Wesselkamp · Hamburg, DE
• Volker Hohmann · Oldenburg, DE
• Ernst J. Henssge · Lübeck, DE
• Andre Ljutow · Lübeck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 1988
• Grant date: Feb 20, 1990
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61L24/06
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a surgical composition comprising a liquid monomeric and powdered polymeric acrylate or methacrylate, a catalyst and an accelerator, the composition upon mixing of the liquid and powdered constituents passing through a plastic state to a solid state, the improvement which comprises including in the composition about 1 to 15% by weight of dimethyl sulfoxide. The product exhibits reduced cytotoxicity.