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Fig. 1 | Patient Safety in Surgery

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From: Empty polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages in anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) show slow radiographic fusion that reduces clinical improvement: results from the prospective multicenter “PIERCE-PEEK” study

Fig. 1

Examples of a good (a–c) and bad (d–e) fusion. The example of a good fusion shows CT-scans from C4/C5 of a 56 year-old man at the 12-month follow-up. a) Axial view. b) Coronal view. c) Sagittal reconstruction. The example of the bad fusion shows X-rays of C5/C6 from a 43 year-old woman. d) Post-Op control. e) At the 6-month follow-up

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Patient Safety in Surgery

ISSN: 1754-9493