, George C. Babis2 and Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou3 (1) Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece (2) 2nd Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University Nea Ionia General Hospital “Konstantopoulion”,…
, George C. Babis2 and Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou3 (1) Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece (2) 2nd Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University Nea Ionia General Hospital “Konstantopoulion”,…
, George C. Babis2 and Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou3 (1) Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece (2) 2nd Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University Nea Ionia General Hospital “Konstantopoulion”,…
, George C. Babis2 and Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou3 (1) Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece (2) 2nd Orthopaedic Department Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University Nea Ionia General Hospital “Konstantopoulion”,…
Implant (year of FDA approval) Material Bearing surface Articulations Constraint COR Fixation Cervical ProDisc-C (2007) CoCrMo Metal on polymer 1 Semiconstrained Fixed Midline keel bone ingrowth UHMWPE Prestige (2007) Stainless…
Fig. 17.1 Typical MRI appearance of large sacral chordoma 17.3 Clinical Features Patients diagnosed with a chordoma most commonly present with pain, regardless of location (Bergh et al. 2000; Boriani…
Date range www.pubmed.gov www.ors.org 2011 7 5 2006–2010 26 11 2001–2005 7 3 1996–2000 8 0 1991–1995 6 na >1990 4 na Survey of the number of intervertebral disc organ…
Fig. 4.1 Immunolocalization of aggrecan (a), versican (b), and toluidine blue-stained proteoglycan (c) in a 14-week gestational age fetal human intervertebral disc and adjacent cartilaginous vertebral body rudiment cartilages. Higher-power…
Fig. 23.1 Definition of a stem/progenitor cell. Criteria of stem/progenitor cell include clonogenicity, high proliferative capacity, self-renewal capability (from a single cell to reconstitute a tissue in which the cell…
Fig. 13.1 Sagittal T2-weighted lumbar MRI image demonstrating degeneration of the L4–5 intervertebral disc (white arrow). Water has high signal intensity on T2-weighted MRI imaging. As the disc degenerates, it…
