Posterior spinal instrumentation and decompression with or without cross-link?

Background: Posterior lumbar instrumentation requires sufficient primary stiffness to ensure bony fusion and to avoid pseudarthrosis, screw loosening, or implant failure. To enhance primary construct stiffness, transverse cross-link (CL) connectors attached to the vertical rods can be used. Their ef...

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Main Authors: Marco D. Burkhard, Frédéric Cornaz, José Miguel Spirig, Florian Wanivenhaus, Rafael Loucas, Marie-Rosa Fasser, Jonas Widmer, Mazda Farshad
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Elsevier 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/96df83aed19f4fd9925d2d6fde02b370
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