Resorbable cages for spinal fusion: An experimental goat model

Orthopedics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Wuisman, P I J M ^a   van Dijk, M ^a   Smit, T H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID; TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE REMODELING; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IN VIVO STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSSIFICATION; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE REACTION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GOATS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYESTERS; PROBABILITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FUSION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TITANIUM;

EID: 0036805261     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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