The development of whole blood titanium levels after instrumented spinal fusion – Is there a correlation between the number of fused segments and titanium levels?

BACKGROUND: Most modern spinal implants contain titanium and remain in the patient’s body permanently. Local and systemic effects such as tissue necrosis, osteolysis and malignant cell transformation caused by implants have been described. Increasing tissue concentration and whole blood levels of io...

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Autores principales: Ipach, Ingmar, Schäfer, Ralf, Mittag, Falk, Leichtle, Carmen, Wolf, Petra, Kluba, Torsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-13-159

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-13-159

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