Large sizes of vertebral body replacement do not reduce the contact pressure on adjacent vertebral bodies per se

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1307-1312

  Zander, Thomas ^a   Bergmann, Georg ^a   Rohlmann, Antonius ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact pressure; Finite element analysis; Implant size; Spine; Vertebral body replacement

Indexed keywords

CONTACT PRESSURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMPLANT SIZE; SPINE; VERTEBRAL BODY REPLACEMENT;

BITS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RISK PERCEPTION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMPLANT; LIGAMENT; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE STABILIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTEBRA BODY;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRESSURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK; SPINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 70449527481     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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