The Ongoing Quest for the Holy Bone Graft Grail: Scientific Progress, Economic Bonanza, or Quixotic Quagmire?
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The Ongoing Quest for the Holy Bone Graft Grail: Scientific Progress, Economic Bonanza, or Quixotic Quagmire?
The market for bone grafts continues to be ever-expanding in products, device categories, and volumes applied. Market analysts consistently see bone graft substitutes as an investment opportunity, quoting our increasingly aging and sicker population and apparent disenchantment with the gold standard— mainly iliac crest graft—as the leading driver for this ongoing development. Spine surgery, and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Global Spine Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2192-5682,2192-5690
DOI: 10.1177/2192568217733470