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Arthroplasty of the Spine

By H. Michael Mayer , Marek Szpalski , Robert Gunzburg , Prof. Dr. Max Aebi (eds.) , Prof. Dr. Marek Szpalski , Dr. Robert Gunzburg , Max Aebi (auth.) , Dr. Heinz Michael Mayer

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2004
ISBN
978-3-540-20295-0, 978-3-642-18508-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-18508-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8337173 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
164\171
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Surgical Orthopedics

Description

Joint replacement is a logical step in the treatment of severe joint pathologies with irreversible lesions resisting conservative therapy. At the spinal level, arthrodesis became, very early, the gold standard of treatment for severe intervertebral disc pathologies. The next logical step was to envision functional replacement, and this step was taken as early as 1956, when the first intervertebral implant was described. However, it took many more years and a great variety of proposed implant designs before clinical applications could be attempted.

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