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Adjacent segment degeneration and topping off. Never stop at the apex!

We investigated if applying the Transition system (Globus Medical Inc., Audubon, PA, USA) as topping off can prevent Adjacent Segment Degeneration (ASD) and if rate of ASD is increased if instrumentation stopped at the apex of the Lumbar Lordosis (LL). We enrolled 99 consecutive patients in a retros...

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Autores principales: Konieczny, Markus R., Mokhaberi, Shejda, Krauspe, Rüdiger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579211
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/or.2019.7781