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Assimilable hydrophilic prosthesis

  • US 4,181,983 A
  • Filed: 08/29/1977
  • Issued: 01/08/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An assimilable prosthesis than can be implanted in a body cavity, comprising a porous hydrophilic body formed by the removal of solvent by lyophilization or selective leaching, without substantial volume change, from a substantially homogeneous solution in liquid organic solvent of (a), an assimilable normally hydrophobic polymer composed primarily of polymerized units of a saturated, aliphatic hydroxy carboxylic acid, and (b), a small amount of a physiologically acceptable wetting agent, which amount remains in the polymer and is sufficient to impart hydrophilicity to said body.

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