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- Fig 1.
Iced sodium chloride bath. PMMA cement is mixed, loaded, and capped in 12-mL luer-lock syringes, which are kept in an iced sodium chloride bath in a small 35-oz solution bowl. The syringes were rotated to keep them evenly submersed and cooled.
- Fig 2.
Photographic demonstration of the injectability of the cement at room temperature (left syringe in each image) and the cement immersed in the iced sodium chloride solution (right syringe in each image). At 30 minutes, the syringe at room temperature has hardened and is impossible to inject compared with freely flowing cooled mixture. The mixture begins to become semisolid at 2 hours 15 minutes.
