Feasibility of a resorbable anterior cervical graft containment plate

Orthopedics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Ames, Christopher P ^a   Crawford, Neil R ^a   Chamberlain, Robert H ^a   Cornwall, G Bryan ^a   Nottmeier, Eric ^a   Sonntag, Volker K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIDE; POLYMER; TANTALUM; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE SCREW; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; METAL IMPLANTATION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATES; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SPINAL FUSION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0036804388     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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