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Topping-off surgery vs posterior lumbar interbody fusion for degenerative lumbar disease: a finite element analysis

BACKGROUND: Adjacent segment disease (ASD) is a common complication after posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF). Recently, a topping-off surgery (non-fusion with Coflex) has been developed to reduce the risk of ASD, yet whether and how the topping-off surgery can relieve ASD remains unclear. The...

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Autores principales: Fan, Yunpeng, Zhou, Shaobo, Xie, Tao, Yu, Zefeng, Han, Xiao, Zhu, Liulong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-019-1503-4