Primary stability of pedicle screws depends on the screw positioning and alignment

Spine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1934-1939

  Costa, Francesco ^a   Villa, Tomaso ^b   Anasetti, Federica ^c   Tomei, Massimo ^a   Ortolina, Alessandro ^a   Cardia, Andrea ^a   La Barbera, Luigi ^b   Fornari, Maurizio ^a   Galbusera, Fabio ^c  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pedicle screw; Porcine; Pullout; Screw misplacement; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL PERFORATION; IMPLANTATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MATERIALS TESTING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PEDICLE SCREW STABILITY; PORCINE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

PEDICLE SCREW; PORCINE; PULLOUT; SCREW MISPLACEMENT; STABILITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BONE SCREWS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL FUSION; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84889684142     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2013.03.046     Document Type: Article

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