High rate of fusion in sheep cervical spines following anterior interbody surgery with absorbable and nonabsorbable implant devices

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2772-2777

  Slivka, Michael A ^a   Spenciner, David B ^b   Seim, Howard B ^c   Welch, William C ^d   Serhan, Hassan A ^a   Turner, A Simon ^c  

^a Synthes Technical Center   (United States)

^b RIH   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbable; Anterior cervical fusion; Implants; Interbody cage; Sheep model

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMPLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CARBON; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; OSSEOINTEGRATION; POLYESTERS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP; SPINAL FUSION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TITANIUM; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 33751106162     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000245935.69927.a1     Document Type: Article

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