Direct Current Electrical Stimulation Increases the Fusion Rate of Spinal Fusion Cages
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Electrical Stimulation and Spinal Fusion
The earliest reported use of electrical stimulation to improve the efficacy of spinal fusion was over a quarter of a century ago. At that time, Dwyer et al. were the first to show that adjunctive electrical stimulation improved the fusion rate of a diagnostically varied group of patients undergoing both anterior and posterior spinal fusion. Over the next decade, only two additional studies exam...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0362-2436
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200010150-00007