Influence of TachoComb® in comparison to local hemostyptic agents on epidural fibrosis in a rat laminectomy model

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-109

  Lee, J Y ^a   Ebel, H ^a   Friese, M ^a   Schillinger, G ^a   Schroder R ^a   Klug, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidural fibrosis; Failed back surgery syndrome; Hemostyptica; Interposition membrane

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; OXIDIZED REGENERATED CELLULOSE; SPONGOSTAN; TACHOCOMB; TISSUE ADHESIVE; APROTININ; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DURA MATER; FIBROSIS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SPINE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL SPACE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCAR; SPINE DISEASE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; APROTININ; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPIDURAL SPACE; FIBRIN FOAM; FIBRINOGEN; FIBROSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES; THROMBIN; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 0038316415     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39335     Document Type: Article

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