Table 1.
Percentage of elements in the specimens from the intact Cerament rod (control) and after 6 weeks and 12 weeks by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis.
| Specimens | Iron in Cerament/surrounding tissue | Weight (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O | P | S | Cl | Ca | ||
| Control | Cerament | 72.6 | 3.7 | 9.2 | 0.4 | 13.6 |
| 6-wk C | Cerament | 63.9 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 21.5 |
| Tissue | 77.2 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 11.9 | 6.4 | |
| 6-wk C+BM | Cerament | 63.8 | 14.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 20.2 |
| Tissue | 66.6 | 10.2 | 0.6 | 7.8 | 14.7 | |
| 12-wk C | Cerament | 65.5 | 12.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 21.2 |
| Tissue | 79.0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | 10.9 | 5.2 | |
| 12-wk C+BM | Cerament | 62.5 | 11.9 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 21.7 |
| Tissue | 75.0 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 13.5 | 6.3 | |
Data are presented as the mean of two measurements.
BM = bone marrow; C = Cerament.