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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Polym Degrad Stab. 2013 Mar 21;98(6):1225–1235. doi: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2013.03.005

Table 1.

Summary of patients and implant data of the fifteen Dynesys® retrieval considered.

Sample Age/sex Years
implanted
Observation
1 – Exemplar Not implanted, used as
reference
2 – Dyn 002 45 – M 0.7 Crushed on one side
3 – Dyn 003 50 – M 1.0 Bent
4 – Dyn 004 44 – Uk 1.1
5 – Dyn 005 49 – F 2.5 Both ends cut
6 – Dyn 006 48 – F 1.9 Wrong cut
7 – Dyn 008 32 – M 1.0 Deep erosion
8 – Dyn 009 44 – F 2.4 Crushed on one side
9 – Dyn 010 37 – M 4.0 Extended opacization
10 – Dyn 012 30 – F 6.5
11 – Dyn 013 47 – M 2.9 Bent
12 – Dyn 014 40 – F 2.4
13 – Dyn 015 47 – M 2.2 Crushed on one side and bent
14 – Dyn 019 54 – M 5.2 Crushed on one side
15 – Dyn 020 Unknown Unknown Half glossy and half opaque