Surgical treatment of osteoporotic thoracolumbar compressive fractures with open vertebral cement augmentation of expandable pedicle screw fixation: A biomechanical study and a 2-year follow-up of 20 patients

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-98

  Wu, Zi Xiang ^a   Gao, Ming Xuan ^a   Sang, Hong Xun ^a   Ma, Zhen Sheng ^a   Cui, Geng ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Lei, Wei ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical study; Fixation strength; Osteoporosis; Pedicle screws; Polymethylmethacrylate; Spinal fracture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PEDICLE SCREW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE FUSION; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; BONE CEMENTS; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857054515     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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