Use of the anterior interbody fresh-frozen femoral head allograft in circumferential lumbar fusions

Journal of Spinal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 144-149

  Bendo, John A ^a   Spivak, Jeffrey M ^a   Neuwirth, Michael G ^a   Chung, Philip ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumferential fusion; Disk space collapse; Femoral head allograft; Lumbar interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE REMODELING; CIRCUMFERENTIAL LUMBAR FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034586454     PISSN: 08950385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002517-200004000-00009     Document Type: Article

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