Current status of bone graft options for anterior interbody fusion of the cervical and lumbar spine

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-37

  Chau, Anthony Minh Tien ^a   Xu, Lileane Liang ^b   Wong, Johnny Ho Yin ^a   Mobbs, Ralph Jasper ^b,c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; Anterior lumbar interbody fusion; Bone graft; Spinal fusion

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; LIPOSOME; NAKED DNA; PLASMID VECTOR;

ANTERIOR CERVICAL DISCECTOMY AND FUSION; ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOMECHANICS; BOLUS INJECTION; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE GRAFT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MATRIX; BONE REGENERATION; BONE REMODELING; CASE STUDY; CERAMICS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GEL; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; OSTEOCONDUCTIVE GRAFT; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPROGENITOR CELL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BONE SUBSTITUTES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 84891856732     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0483-9     Document Type: Review

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