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Do PEEK Rods for Posterior Instrumented Fusion in the Lumbar Spine Reduce the Risk of Adjacent Segment Disease?

Daniel Hirt, Heather A. Prentice, Jessica E. Harris, Elizabeth W. Paxton, Jessa Alexander, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Deven Khosla and Steven M. Kurtz
International Journal of Spine Surgery April 2021, 15 (2) 251-258; DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8034
Daniel Hirt
1Department of Neurosurgery, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles, California
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Heather A. Prentice
2Surgical Outcomes and Analysis, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, California
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Jessica E. Harris
2Surgical Outcomes and Analysis, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, California
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Elizabeth W. Paxton
2Surgical Outcomes and Analysis, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, California
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Jessa Alexander
3Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California
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Daniel T. Nagasawa
4Achieve Brain and Spine Surgery, Santa Monica, California,
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Deven Khosla
4Achieve Brain and Spine Surgery, Santa Monica, California,
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Steven M. Kurtz
5Exponent, Inc, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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    Reoperation due to adjacent segment disease (ASD)–free probability (left panel = overall, right panel = matched) following lumbar spine fusion using polyetheretherketone (PEEK) rods compared to titanium (Ti) rods.

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Do PEEK Rods for Posterior Instrumented Fusion in the Lumbar Spine Reduce the Risk of Adjacent Segment Disease?
Daniel Hirt, Heather A. Prentice, Jessica E. Harris, Elizabeth W. Paxton, Jessa Alexander, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Deven Khosla, Steven M. Kurtz
International Journal of Spine Surgery Apr 2021, 15 (2) 251-258; DOI: 10.14444/8034

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Daniel Hirt, Heather A. Prentice, Jessica E. Harris, Elizabeth W. Paxton, Jessa Alexander, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Deven Khosla, Steven M. Kurtz
International Journal of Spine Surgery Apr 2021, 15 (2) 251-258; DOI: 10.14444/8034
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