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Balancing Rigidity and Safety of Pedicle Screw Fixation via a Novel Expansion Mechanism in a Severely Osteoporotic Model

Many successful attempts to increase pullout strength of pedicle screws in osteoporotic bone have been accompanied with an increased risk of catastrophic damage to the patient. To avoid this, a single-armed expansive pedicle screw was designed to increase fixation strength while controlling postfail...

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Autores principales: Shea, Thomas M., Doulgeris, James J., Gonzalez-Blohm, Sabrina A., Lee, William E., Aghayev, Kamran, Vrionis, Frank D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4331393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705655
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/318405