Immediate biomechanical effects of lumbar posterior dynamic stabilization above a circumferential fusion

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2551-2557

  Cheng, Boyle C ^a,d   Gordon, Jeff ^b   Cheng, Joseph ^b   Welch, William C ^c  

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

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent level disease; Biomechanics; Circumferential fusion; Motion preservation; Posterior dynamic stabilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LUMBAR SPINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 35848953389     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318158cdbe     Document Type: Article

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