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Article: Prospective study evaluating total disc replacement - preliminary results.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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2003 DEC 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prospective study evaluating total disc replacement - preliminary results. "For many years, there has been an interest in disc replacements. There are a few retrospective studies from Europe reporting promising results for these devices," investigators in the United States report.
"The purpose of this study is to review the preliminary results of the SB Charite disc replacement device in a prospective study. The study group consists of a consecutive series of our first 57 patients who received the Link SB Charite device implanted through a mini-open anterior approach," wrote S.L. Blumenthal and colleagues, Texas Back ...