The Artificial Disc
Spine surgery is evolving much like hip surgery did 30 years ago. It is progressing away from fusion towards mobility retention. The LINK SB Charité Artificial Disc is the only motion-retaining disc replacement for which there is long-term clinical experi
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al Disc
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
KARIN BUTTNER-JANZ STEPHEN H. HOCHSCHULER PAUL
C. McAFEE (EDS.)
he Artific·al Disc
With 130 Illustrations and 17 Tables
Springer
KARIN BUTTNER-JANZ, MD, PHD
Head of Orthopaedic Clinic Vivantes Klinikum Hellersdorf Myslowitzer StraBe 45 12621 Berlin, Germany TeI.: 00 49 / 30 / 56 51 21 80 Fax: 00 49 / 30 / 56 51 26 78 e-mail: [email protected] STEP HEN H. HOCHSCHULER, MD
Texas Back Institute 6300 West Parker Road PIano, TX 75093, USA TeI.: 001/9729813751 or 3746 or 3766 or 3776 (ass't) Fax: 001 / 972 981 3779 e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] PAUL
C. McAFEE, MD
Scoliosis and Spine Center 7505 OsIer Drive Suite 104 Towson, MD 21204, USA TeI.: 001/410 337 8888 or 4103377900 Fax: 001 / 410 823 4833 e-mail: [email protected]@[email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-22799-1
ISBN 978-3-662-05347-8 (eBook)
DOl 10.1007/978-3-662-05347-8
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"Nothing else in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come" (Victor Hugo)
"You will know the pioneer, he is the one with the arrows in his back;' (Ancient spinal surgery proverb)
"I would like to dedicate my work on this project to Henry H. Bohlman, M.D. His conscientious insight and intellect serve as a model for all spinal surgeons eva
