A Dynamic Interbody Cage Improves Bone Formation in Anterior Cervical Surgery: A Porcine Biomechanical Study

• Published in: Clinical orthopaedics and related research Vol. 479; no. 11; pp. 2547 - 2558
• Main Authors: Yang, Shih-Hung, Xiao, Fu-Ren, Lai, Dar-Ming, Wei, Chung-Kai, Tsuang, Fon-Yih
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wolters Kluwer 01.11.2021; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
• Subjects: Animals; Basic Research; Biomechanical Phenomena; Bone grafts; Bone growth; Bone surgery; Bone Transplantation - methods; Calcium Phosphates; Cancellous bone; Cervical Vertebrae - physiopathology; Cervical Vertebrae - surgery; Compression; Computed tomography; Degeneration; Diffusion Chambers, Culture; Diskectomy - methods; Durapatite; Hogs; Hydroxyapatite; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - physiopathology; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration - surgery; Intervertebral discs; Mechanical loading; Mechanical properties; Models, Animal; Osteogenesis; Osteogenesis - physiology; Pilot Projects; Prosthesis Design; Radiography; Spinal Fusion; Spine (lumbar); Subsidence; Swine; Tricalcium phosphate

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with a rigid interbody spacer is commonly used in the treatment of cervical degenerative disc disease. Although ACDF relieves clinical symptoms, it is associated with several complications such as pseudoarthrosis and adjacent segment degeneration. The c...