Indications:
- Mechanical instability
- Spondylolisthesis
- Degenerative disc desease
- Intervertebral disc prolapse
- Osteochondrosis
Advantages:
- Spiked superior and inferior surfaces
- Assuring a secure seating of the implant
- Hollow, fenestrated implant design
- Allowing good bony in-growth
- Simple in concept and technique
- Allowing ease of successful implantation
- Flat or wedge shaped
- Making lordosis correction possible
- Adequate selection of sizes
- Presenting the right implant to fit the patient
- Simple instrumentation
- Assuring an economic and efficient technique
Technique:
Simple and efficient choice in interbody fusion. Using
a posterior approach following LUMBAR DISCECTOMY. |