In vivo study of a self-stabilizing artificial vertebral body fabricated by electron beam melting

Spine

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages E486-E492

  Yang, Jun ^a   Cai, Hong ^a   Lv, Jia ^a   Zhang, Ke ^a   Leng, Huijie ^a   Sun, Chuiguo ^a   Wang, Zhiguo ^a   Liu, Zhongjun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

3 D printing; Biomaterials; Biomechanics; Bone implants; Cervical spine; Electron beam melting; Porous metal; Spine fusion; Ti6Al4V; Vertebral body replacement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON BEAM MELTING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVINE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF STABILIZNG ARTIFICIAL VERTEBRAL BODY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; VERTEBRA BODY; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BONE REGENERATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MATERIALS TESTING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SHEEP; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURGERY; TIME;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM ALLOY (TIAL6V4);

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSSEOINTEGRATION; POROSITY; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHEEP; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84892188003     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000211     Document Type: Article

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