Bioresorbable polymer implants in the unilateral transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion procedure

Orthopedics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Lowe, Thomas G ^a   Coe, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; POLYLACTIDE; POLYMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036804283     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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