Title | Arthroplasty of the Spine [electronic resource] / edited by Robert Gunzburg, Heinz Michael Mayer, Marek Szpalski, Max Aebi |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18508-3 |
Descript | VIII, 164 p. 96 illus. online resource |
Arthroplasty of the spine: the long quest for mobility -- Spine arthroplasty: a historical review -- Non-fusion technology in degenerative lumbar spinal disorders: facts, questions, challenges -- Cervical motion segment replacement -- History, design and biomechanics of the LINK SB Charitรฉ artificial disc -- Artificial disc: preliminary results of a prospective study in the United States -- Optimal minimally traumatic approach for the SB Charitรฉโข Artificial Disc -- Maverick total lumbar disk prosthesis: biomechanics and preliminary clinical results -- Total disc replacement arthroplasty using the AcroFlex lumbar disc: a non-human primate model -- Minimally invasive total disc replacement: surgical technique and preliminary clinical results -- Indications for full prosthetic disc arthroplasty: a correlation of clinical outcome against a variety of indications -- The PDNยฎ prosthetic disc-nucleus device -- Surgical and clinical results with the PDNยฎ prosthetic disc-nucleus device -- A spiral implant as nucleus prosthesis in the lumbar spine -- Nucleus prosthesis: a new concept -- Graf ligamentoplasty: a 7-year follow-up -- Mechanical supplementation by non-rigid fixation in degenerative intervertebral lumbar segments: the Wallis system -- The dynamic neutralization system for the spine: a multi-center study of a novel non-fusion system -- The objectives for the mechanical evaluation of spinal instrumentation have changed -- Development and preclinical testing of a new tension-band device for the spine: the Loop system -- Elastic stabilization alone or combined with rigid fusion in spinal surgery: a biomechanical study and clinical experience based on 82 cases -- Rationale, principles and experimental evaluation of the concept of soft stabilization -- A potential role for cell-based therapeutics in the treatment of intervertebral disc herniation -- A biological approach to treating disc degeneration: not for today, but maybe for tomorrow