Cement distribution, volume, and compliance in vertebroplasty: Some answers from an anatomy-based nonlinear finite element study

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1722-1730

  Chevalier, Yan ^a   Pahr, Dieter ^a   Charlebois, Mathieu ^a   Heini, Paul ^b   Schneider, Erich ^c   Zysset, Philippe ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE INJURY; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRESS; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DRUG EFFECT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 58149123525     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31817c750b     Document Type: Article

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