Comparison of hydroxyapatite granules to autogenous bone graft in fusion cages in a goat model

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 628-634

  Mooney, Vert ^a,c   Massie, Jennifer B ^a   Lind, Bengt I ^b   Rah, Jung Ho ^a   Negri, Scott ^a   Holmes, Ralph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone substitute; Fusion cages; Hydroxyapatite; Interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOAT; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPINE FUSION; VERTEBRA BODY;

ANIMALS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DURAPATITE; GOATS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032101364     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(98)00049-4     Document Type: Article

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