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.
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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.
Imprint | Springer-Verlag |
Country of origin | Germany |
Release date | February 2004 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2004 |
Editors | Robert Gunzburg, H. Michael Mayer, Marek Szpalski, Max Aebi |
Dimensions | 277 x 210 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 164 |
Edition | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-540-20295-0 |
Barcode | 9783540202950 |
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LSN | 3-540-20295-1 |