Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 69, Issue 12 , Pages 581-584 , December 2006

Posterolateral Lumbar Spinal Fusion with Autogenous Bone Chips from Laminectomy Extended with OsteoSet®

  • Chien-Lung Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Lo-Tung Pohai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Chien-Lin Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Chien-Lin Liu, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Shih-Sheng Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Lo-Tung Pohai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Pu-Yu Han

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Lo-Tung Pohai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Chi-Sheng Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Lo-Tung Pohai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Wai-Hee Lo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Lo-Tung Pohai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 18 November 2005 ,Accepted 13 November 2006.

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PII: S1726-4901(09)70333-8

doi: 10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70333-8

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 69, Issue 12 , Pages 581-584 , December 2006

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