Rationale, design and clinical performance of the Superion® Interspinous Spacer: A minimally invasive implant for treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-426

  Loguidice, Vito ^a   Bini, Walter ^b   Shabat, Shay ^c   Miller, Larry E ^d,e   Block, Jon E ^e  

^a Orthopedic Associates of the Greater Lehigh Valley   (United States)

^b Dubrovnik General Hospital   (Croatia)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Miller Scientific Consulting Inc   (United States)

^e Jon e Block PhD Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

implant; interspinous; lumbar; minimally invasive; spacer; stenosis; Superion

Indexed keywords

INTERSPINOUS; LUMBAR; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SPACER; STENOSIS;

TITANIUM;

SURGERY;

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LUMBAR SPINE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 79960109332     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erd.11.24     Document Type: Article

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