Relationship between screw sagittal angle and stress on endplate of adjacent segments after anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion with internal fixation: a Chinese finite element study

Abstract Background In order to reduce the incidence of adjacent segment disease (ASD), the current study was designed to establish Chinese finite element models of normal 3rd~7th cervical vertebrae (C3-C7) and anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF) with internal fixation , and analyze the i...

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Main Authors: Yu Zhang, Yibo Tang, Hongxing Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Surgery
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12893-017-0305-z