Extent of corpectomy determines primary stability following isolated anterior reconstruction in a thoracolumbar fracture model

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-20

  Schmoelz, W ^b   Schaser, K D ^a   Knop, C ^b   Blauth, M ^b   Disch, A C ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior plating system; Biomechanics; Corpectomy; Defect model; Vertebral fracture treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR PLATING SYSTEM; AXIAL ROTATION; BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES; CORTICAL BONE; DEFECT MODEL; INVASIVE TECHNIQUES; LATERAL BENDING; MOTION PLANE; PLATING SYSTEMS; RANGE OF MOTIONS; ROTATIONAL STIFFNESS; THORACOLUMBAR FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL BODY; VERTEBRAL FRACTURES; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

BIOMECHANICS; DEFECTS; FRACTURE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; REPAIR; ROTATION; STIFFNESS;

SIMULATORS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE STABILIZATION; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

AGED; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71649090296     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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