PEEK Cages in Lumbar Fusion Mid-term Clinical Outcome and Radiologic Fusion

Clinical Spine Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages E252-E258

  Schimmel, Janneke J P ^a   Poeschmann, Marcel S ^a   Horsting, Philip P ^a   Schonfeld D H ^a   Limbeek, Jacques Van ^a   Pavlov, Paul W ^a  

^a SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF); polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cage; pseudoarthrosis; Synfix LR

Indexed keywords

POLYETHERETHERKETONE; KETONE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR LUMBAR INTERBODY FUSION; ARTICLE; BONE MALFORMATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYETHERETHERKETONE CAGE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; URINE RETENTION; WOUND INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETONES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; REOPERATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84991571494     PISSN: 23800186     EISSN: 23800194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e31826eaf74     Document Type: Article

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