Engineering patient-specific drill templates and bioabsorbable posterior cervical plates: A feasibility study - Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-132

  Ryken, Timothy C ^a   Kim, John ^a   Owen, Brent D ^a   Christensen, Gary E ^b   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioabsorbable instrumentation; Computer template; Spine surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PLATE FIXATION; VOLUMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE PLATE; CERVICAL SPINE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; PROSTHESIS; SPINE FUSION;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; BONE PLATES; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65249175702     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.11.SPI0817677     Document Type: Article

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