Vertebroplasty: Only small cement volumes are required to normalize stress distributions on the vertebral bodies

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 2865-2873

  Luo, Jin ^a   Daines, Luke ^a   Charalambous, Alexander ^a   Adams, Michael A ^a   Annesley Williams, Deborah J ^b   Dolan, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cement volume; Intradiscal pressure; Load sharing; Vertebral fracture; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOADING TEST; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHRACENES; BIOMECHANICS; BONE CEMENTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL FRACTURES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 74249106127     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181b4ea1e     Document Type: Article

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