The transmission of stress to grafted bone inside a titanium mesh cage used in anterior column reconstruction after total spondylectomy: A finite-element analysis

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2783-2787

  Akamaru, Tomoyuki ^a   Kawahara, Norio ^a   Sakamoto, Jiro ^a   Yoshida, Akira ^a   Murakami, Hideki ^a   Hato, Taizo ^a   Awamori, Serina ^a   Oda, Juhachi ^a   Tomita, Katsuro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone remodeling; Finite element method; Spinal fusion; Spinal instrumentation; Spondylectomy; Stress shielding; Titanium mesh cage

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; SPINAL FUSION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TITANIUM;

EID: 29444461041     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000192281.53603.3f     Document Type: Article

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