Direct current electrical stimulation increases the fusion rate of spinal fusion cages

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 2580-2587

  Toth, Jeffrey M ^a   Seim III, Howard B ^b   Schwardt, Jeffrey D ^c   Humphrey, Wendy B ^c   Wallskog, Joel A ^a   Turner, A Simon ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Electro Biology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone healing; Cages; Direct current stimulation; Electric stimulation; Lumbar vertebrae; Spinal fusion; Spine fusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; INTERNAL FIXATORS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHEEP; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034667341     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200010150-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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