Treatment of the degenerated intervertebral disc; closure, repair and regeneration of the annulus fibrosus

Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1120-1132

  Sharifi, Shahriar ^a,b   Bulstra, Sjoerd K ^a   Grijpma, Dirk W ^a,b   Kuijer, Roel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annulus fibrosus; Biomaterials; Intervertebral disc; Low back pain; Review; Spine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; REPAIR; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANNULUS FIBROSUS; CURRENT TREATMENTS; DISC DEGENERATION; GENETIC FACTORS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOADING HISTORY; LOWER BACK PAIN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; SPINE; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

TISSUE;

FIBRIN GLUE; TISSUE ADHESIVE; BIOMATERIAL;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE; ANNULUS FIBROSUS; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BIODEGRADABILITY; BONE REGENERATION; BONE REMODELING; CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISCECTOMY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REVIEW; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; PATHOLOGY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84944513368     PISSN: 19326254     EISSN: 19327005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/term.1866     Document Type: Review

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