Feasibility study of using viscoplastic bone cement for vertebroplasty: An in vivo clinical trial and in vitro cadaveric biomechanical examination

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Lin, Shih Wei ^a,b   Chiang, Chun Kai ^a   Yang, Chi Lin ^a   Wang, Jaw Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Ten Chan General Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cement leakage; Vertebral compression fracture; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CANCELLOUS BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOPLASTY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISCOSITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; BONE CEMENTS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSTEOPOROSIS; PLASTICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FRACTURES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROPLASTY; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77952011681     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c9f7fc     Document Type: Article

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