Filling a cervical spine cage with local autograft: Change of bone density and assessment of bony fusion

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 8-13

  Pitzen, T ^a   Kiefer, R ^a   Munchen D ^a   Barbier, D ^a   Reith, W ^a   Steudel, W I ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone; Cage; Computed tomography; Implants; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE CAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSTEOPHYTE; PLATE FIXATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BONE DENSITY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION CHAMBERS, CULTURE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 33644825303     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-921404     Document Type: Article

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