Bone graft gel: Autologous growth factors used with autograft bone for lumbar spine fusions

Advances in Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 170-175

  Bose, Bikash ^a,b   Balzarini, Michael A ^a  

^a CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologous growth factors; Bone healing; Lumbar spine fusion

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; OSTEOCALCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE GRAFT; BONE MATRIX; BONE SCREW; DEMINERALIZATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; GEL; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; IMMUNOGENICITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPINE FUSION;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GELS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0036661245     PISSN: 0741238X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02848692     Document Type: Article

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