Distractible vertebral body replacement for the thoracic and lumbar spine

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 467-471

  Ulmar, Benjamin ^a   Richter, Marcus ^b   Kelsch, Georg ^a   Cakir, Balkan ^a   Puhl, Wolfhart ^a   Huch, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Spine Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Spine; Vertebral body replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOLYSIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISCITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 24644484044     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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