Influence of cage design on interbody fusion in a sheep cervical spine model

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 96, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 321-332

  Kandziora, Frank ^a   Schollmeier, Georg ^a   Scholz, Matti ^a   Schaefer, Jan ^a   Scholz, Alexandra ^a   Schmidmaier, Gerhard ^a   Schröder, Ralf ^a   Bail, Herman ^a   Duda, Georg ^a   Mittlmeier, Thomas ^a   Haas, Norbert P ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Interbody cage; Sheep; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE MATRIX; BONE MINERAL; CAGE; CALLUS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEIGHT; HISTOLOGY; ILIAC BONE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LORDOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036131323     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2002.96.3.0321     Document Type: Article

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