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The Relevance of Torsional Stability to Anterior and Posterior Cervical Spine Fixation Procedures — an Experimental Study

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To obtain bony fusion in an unstable cervical motion segment, several anterior and posterior fixation methods are well established, and their flexional stability is compared in an experimental study in vitro [5].

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  1. Ulm/Donau, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ch. Ulrich, R. Kalff, L. Claes, O. Woersdoerfer & H.-J. Wilke

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  1. Service de chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique, Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France

    René Louis M.D.

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Paracelsus-Klinik, Osnabrück, Federal Republic of Germany

    Andreas Weidner

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Ulrich, C., Kalff, R., Claes, L., Woersdoerfer, O., Wilke, HJ. (1989). The Relevance of Torsional Stability to Anterior and Posterior Cervical Spine Fixation Procedures — an Experimental Study. In: Louis, R., Weidner, A. (eds) Cervical Spine II. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9055-5_44

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