| Arthroplasty of the Spine Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Gunzburg, Robert (Editor), Mayer, H. Michael (Editor), Szpalski, Marek (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540202951 ISBN-13: 9783540202950 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Orthopedics - Medical | Surgery - Orthopedic |
| Dewey: 617.471 |
| LCCN: 2003066402 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.2" W x 10.8" (1.40 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |