Biomechanical comparison of posterior lumbar interbody fusion and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion by finite element analysis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Xu, Hao ^a   Tang, Hao ^b   Guan, Xuemei ^a   Jiang, Fugui ^a   Xu, Neng ^a   Ju, Wen ^a   Zhu, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Xiaojian ^a   Zhang, Qiulin ^b   Li, Ming ^b  

^a First Hospital of Wujiang City   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cage; Finite element analysis; Posterior lumbar interbody fusion; Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; ROTATION; SPINE FUSION; TRANSFORAMINAL LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION;

BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 84874549559     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182742a69     Document Type: Article

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