Stiffness of the endplate boundary layer and endplate surface topography are associated with brittleness of human whole vertebral bodies

Bone

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 783-789

  Nekkanty, Srikant ^a   Yerramshetty, Janardhan ^a   Kim, Do Gyoon ^b   Zauel, Roger ^a   Johnson, Evan ^c   Cody, Dianna D ^c   Yeni, Yener N ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ductility; Endplate topography; Finite elements; Stiffness; Vertebral bodies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DUCTILITY; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRESS; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; TOPOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ENDPLATE; SPINE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77956415425     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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