Analysis of the effect of lumbar spine fusion on the superior adjacent intervertebral disk in the presence of disk degeneration, using the three-dimensional finite element method

Journal of Spinal Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 134-139

  Chosa, Etsuo ^a   Goto, Keisuke ^a   Totoribe, Koji ^a   Tajima, Naoya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adjacent level; Disk degeneration; Finite element method; Fusion; Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COMPRESSION LOADING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POSTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; POSTEROLATERAL FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION; TRESCA STRESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VON MISES STRESS; WEIGHT BEARING; HUMAN; MODEL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 1842786906     PISSN: 08950385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00024720-200404000-00010     Document Type: Article

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