An injectable nucleus pulposus implant restores compressive range of motion in the ovine disc

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Malhotra, Neil R ^a   Han, Woojin M ^a,b   Beckstein, Jesse ^a   Cloyd, Jordan ^a   Chen, Weiliam ^c   Elliott, Dawn M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

compression; hydrogel; implant; lumbar spine; mechanics; nucleus pulposus; sheep

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEL; IMPLANT; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR SPINE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RIGIDITY; SHEEP; TENSION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISKECTOMY; GELATIN; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP; TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT;

EID: 84865661342     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31825cdfb7     Document Type: Article

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