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Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS) is a common, acquired condition leading to disabling back and/or leg pain. Although surgery is common used to treat patients with severe symptoms, there are no universally accepted treatment guidelines. Wide variation in vertebral translation, disc collapse, sagittal alignment, and vertebral mobility suggests this is a heterogeneous disease. A classification...
Although autogenous bone is still considered to be the gold standard graft material for promoting spinal fusion, other bone graft substitutes have been developed in an attempt to improve arthrodesis rates and avoid the complications associated with the procurement of autograft. The bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) represent a family of osteoinductive growth factors that are known to stimulate the...
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