Premature adjacent vertebral fracture after vertebroplasty: A biomechanical study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 733-744

  Fahim, Daniel K ^a   Sun, Kay ^b   Tawackoli, Wafa ^c   Mendel, Ehud ^d   Rhines, Laurence D ^e   Burton, Allen W ^f   Kim, Daniel H ^a   Ehni, Bruce L ^g   Liebschner, Michael A K ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^f Houston Pain Associates   (United States)

^g MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent bone fracture; Biomechanics; Biorobotics; Human spine; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; OSTEOPHYTE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; CADAVER; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBROPLASTY;

EID: 80051801808     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821cc499     Document Type: Article

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