Three-year follow-up of bioabsorbable PLLA cages for lumbar interbody fusion: In vitro and in vivo degradation

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 553, Issue , 2004, Pages 243-255

  Tunc, Deger C ^a   Van Dijk, Martijn ^b   Smit, Theo ^b   Higham, Paul ^a   Burger, Elizabeth ^b   Wuisman, Paul ^b  

^a STRYKER ORTHOPAEDICS   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOSORPTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DESTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOAT; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT STABILITY; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SPINE FUSION; THICKNESS; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 6344235458     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-48584-8_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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