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Elastoplasty as a promising novel technique: Vertebral augmentation with an elastic silicone-based polymer

OBJECTIVE: Percutaneous vertebroplasty with polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) restores the stiffness and the strength of fractured vertebral bodies, but changes the pattern of the stress transfer. This effect may cause a secondary fracture of the adjacent vertebrae. Elastoplasty has emerged as a new tec...

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Autores principales: Gasbarrini, Alessandro, Ghermandi, Riccardo, Akman, Yunus Emre, Girolami, Marco, Boriani, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28202221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aott.2017.01.001

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