Does the formation of vertebral endplate cysts predict nonunion after lumbar interbody fusion?

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Fujibayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Takemoto, Mitsuru ^a   Izeki, Masanori ^a   Takahashi, Yoshimitsu ^a   Nakayama, Takeo ^a   Neo, Masashi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

bone cyst; bony union; lumbar interbody fusion; vertebral endplate

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; BONE CYST; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VERTEBRAL ENDPLATE CYST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CYSTS; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRICTION; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865865323     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31825d26d7     Document Type: Review

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