Screw angulation affects bone-screw stresses and bone graft load sharing in anterior cervical corpectomy fusion with a rigid screw-plate construct: a finite element model study

Spine Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1016-1023

  Hussain, Mozammil ^a   Natarajan, Raghu N ^b,c   Fayyazi, Amir H ^d   Braaksma, Brian R ^b   Andersson, Gunnar B J ^b   An, Howard S ^b  

^a LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical corpectomy; Finite element model; Locked anterior cervical plate; Screw pullout; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CERVICAL CORPECTOMY; CERVICAL SPINE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SHEAR STRESS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL FUSION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 71649102088     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2009.08.461     Document Type: Article

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