Sheetal Vinayek BS Author

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A Prospective Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with InQu Bone Graft Extender with 12-month Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes

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Barrett S Boody, Zachary H Goldstein, Jesse Caballero, Kyle Ridlen BS, Sheetal Vinayek BS, Willa Sasso, Joseph  D Smucker and Rick Sasso

Objective: Bone graft extenders are frequently used in spinal surgery as an adjunctive tool to achieve bony fusion. Synthetic bone graft extenders have been developed in order to avoid the time and morbidities associated with harvesting iliac crest autograft. Different types of synthetic bone graft extenders have been developed including both ceramic and polymer-based grafts. There is little literature on the efficacy of polymer-based synthetic bone graft extenders. We sought to study the effectiveness of a specific polymer-based synthetic bone graft extender, InQu, in achieving fusion in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.

Methods: This study was a prospective multicenter study which... view more»

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