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Introduction
In 2006, an issue of Seminars in Spine Surgery was devoted to the emerging technologies of artificial disk replacements in the cervical and lumbar spine. As it happened, that issue turned out to be on...
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John Heller,
Jack Zigler
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1
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The Argument for Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion Over Total Disk Replacement
16 January 2012
Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion is one of the most commonly performed cervical spine procedures with historically excellent results. In an effort to preserve segmental motion and prevent adjac...
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Jeremy S. Smith,
Melvin D. Helgeson,
Todd J. Albert
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2-7
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ProDisc-C Cervical Disk Arthroplasty
05 January 2012
ProDisc-C cervical disc arthroplasty is a prosthesis that has a cobalt chrome/polyethylene bearing surface and is semi-constrained. It was developed based on the design of the ProDisc-L lumbar disc ar...
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Bruce V. Darden
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8-13
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PRESTIGE Cervical Arthroplasty: Past, Present, and Future
30 December 2011
Cervical arthroplasty was developed and is used to preserve segmental motion of the cervical spine for selected patients who require cervical diskectomy. There are now 3 cervical arthroplasty devices ...
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Jau-Ching Wu,
Scott A. Meyer,
Gurpreet Gandhoke,
Praveen V. Mummaneni
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14-19
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Unanticipated Outcomes After Cervical Disk Arthroplasty
30 December 2011
A review of the literature was performed to study the complications of cervical disk arthroplasty. The following early postoperative complications will be discussed in this article: persistent neurolo...
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Johannes van Loon,
Jan Goffin
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20-24
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Five-Year Results of the ProDisc-L Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing ProDisc-L With Circumferential Spinal Fusion for Single-Level Disabling Degenerative Disk Disease
30 December 2011
Lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) has been used in Europe for many years and since 2000 in the United States with the initiation of the Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption ...
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Jack E. Zigler
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25-31
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Outcomes of CHARITE Lumbar Artificial Disk versus Fusion: 5-Year Data
30 December 2011
Lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) has been used for the treatment of painful disk degeneration since the 1980s. Not until the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated trials in the United States...
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Richard D. Guyer,
Issada Thongtrangan,
Donna D. Ohnmeiss
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32-36
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Reoperations and Complications of Failed Lumbar Total Disk Replacement
03 January 2012
Advancements in lumbar total disk replacement (TDR) and motion preserving technology have become more prevalent. With the clinical application of these devices, complications and failures will need to...
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Paul C. McAfee,
Behnam Salari,
Sameer Saiedy
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37-42
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Lessons Learned After 9 Years' Clinical Experience with 3 Different Nucleus Replacement Devices
05 January 2012
Nucleus replacement devices have been developed with the goal of treating moderate forms of degenerative disk disease, trying to fill the gap between discectomy and fusion. This is a retrospective ana...
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Luiz Pimenta,
Luis Marchi,
Etevaldo Coutinho,
Leonardo Oliveira
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43-47
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Postoperative Imaging of Spinal Disk Arthroplasty Devices
03 January 2012
Cervical and lumbar arthroplasty is being increasingly used over the past decade for the management of degenerative spinal disease with multiple varied devices available worldwide. As more experience ...
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Lali H. Sekhon
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48-56
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The Latest Lessons Learned from Retrieval Analyses of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, Metal-on-Metal, and Alternative Bearing Total Disc Replacements
16 January 2012
Knowledge regarding the in vivo performance and periprosthetic tissue response of cervical and lumbar total disc replacements (TDRs) continues to expand. This review addresses the following 4 main que...
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Steven M. Kurtz,
Jeffrey M. Toth,
Ryan Siskey,
Lauren Ciccarelli,
Daniel MacDonald,
Jorge Isaza,
Todd Lanman,
Ilona Punt,
Marla Steinbeck,
Jan Goffin,
André van Ooij
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57-70
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Regulatory Challenges in Getting Total Disc Replacements Onto the Market in an Era of Increased Food and Drug Administration Scrutiny
16 January 2012
The growing list of total disc replacements attempts to give options and variability to surgeons while treating degenerative disc disease. However, despite surgeon and patient interest, their path to ...
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Glenn Stiegman,
Kevin B. McGowan
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71-80
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Spinescope
It is recommended that a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan should be obtained before the placement of epidural steroid injections. On the other hand, studies have shown that radiologic imaging doe...
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Scott D. Boden
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81-86
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