Preliminary clinical experience with polyetheretherketone cages filled with synthetic crystallic semihydrate form of calcium sulfate for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

Formosan Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 109-115

  Chang, Ming Yuan ^a   Chen, Ming Hong ^a,b   Chang, Chih Ju ^a   Huang, Jing Shan ^a  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical fusion; Calcium sulfate; PEEK cage

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; POLYETHERETHERKETONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISCECTOMY AND FUSION; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LORDOSIS; MALE; NECK PAIN; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT; OSSIFICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYETHERETHERKETONE CAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84883561141     PISSN: 1682606X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fjs.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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