Rigid fixation of the spinal column improves scaffold alignment and prevents scoliosis in the transected rat spinal cord

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Rooney, Gemma E ^a   Vaishya, Sandeep ^a   Ameenuddin, Syed ^a   Currier, Bradford L ^a   Schiefer, Terry K ^a   Knight, Andrew ^a   Chen, Bingkun ^a   Mishra, Prasanna K ^a   Spinner, Robert J ^b   MacUra, Slobodan I ^a   Yaszemski, Michael J ^a   Windebank, Anthony J ^a,c  

^a Department of Neurology and Molecular Neuroscience ^*

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^c MAYO GRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Scaffold; Scoliosis; Spine fixation; Transection spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; POLYGLACTIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLYCOLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLY (LACTIC CO GLYCOLIC ACID); POLY (LACTIC-CO-GLYCOLIC ACID); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSVERSE LESION; SPINE STABILIZATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; IMPLANT; INSTRUMENTATION; KYPHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ANIMALS; BARIUM SULFATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLYCOLATES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; KYPHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOLIOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 58949103528     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318186b2b1     Document Type: Article

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