The biomechanical effect of postoperative hypolordosis in instrumented lumbar fusion on instrumented and adjacent spinal segments

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1617-1624

  Umehara, Shinji ^a,b,c   Zindrick, Michael R ^a,b,d   Patwardhan, Avinash G ^a,b   Havey, Robert M ^a,b   Vrbos, Lori A ^a,b   Knight, Gary W ^a,b   Miyano, Suichi ^a,b,e   Kirincic, Marie ^d   Kaneda, Kiyoshi ^c   Lorenz, Mark A ^a,b,d  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Hinsdale Orthopaedic Associates SC   (United States)

^e SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjacent segment; Biomechanics; Fusion; Instrumentation; Junctional breakdown; Lumbar lordosis; Lumbar spine; Sagittal alignment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 18144451929     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200007010-00004     Document Type: Article

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