Corpectomy cage subsidence with rectangular versus round endcaps

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1632-1636

  Deukmedjian, Armen R ^a   Manwaring, Jotham ^a   Le, Tien V ^a   Turner, Alexander W L ^b   Uribe, Juan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NuVasive Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication avoidance; Corpectomy; Expandable cage; Lateral approach; Minimally invasive; Rectangular endcap; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE PLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPECTOMY CAGE ROUND ENDCAP; CORPECTOMY CAGE WITH RECTANGULAR ENDCAP; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTION; NEUROLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION; VERTEBRA; DEVICES; FLUOROSCOPY; INTERNAL FIXATOR; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SPINE FUSION; SURGERY;

BONE DENSITY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 84905733017     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2013.12.028     Document Type: Article

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