Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion in patients with cervical disc degeneration: A prospective outcome study of 258 patients (181 fused with autologous bone graft and 77 fused with a PEEK cage)

BMC Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lied, Bjarne ^a,b,c   Roenning, Paal Andre ^b   Sundseth, Jarle ^a   Helseth, Eirik ^a,b,c  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETONE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLYETHERETHERKETONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KETONES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPINAL FUSION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950795810     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-10-10     Document Type: Article

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