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Research ArticleLumbar arthroplasty
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Preclinical and clinical experience with a viscoelastic total disc replacement

Burkhard Rischke, Raymond S. Ross, Boris A. Jollenbeck, Kari B. Zimmers and Neal D. Defibaugh
International Journal of Spine Surgery January 2011, 5 (4) 97-107; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.08.001
Burkhard Rischke
aCenter of Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland
MD, PhD
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Raymond S. Ross
bHope Hospital, Manchester, UK
MD
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Boris A. Jollenbeck
cMagdeburg Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany
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Kari B. Zimmers
dAxioMed Spine Corporation, Garfield Heights, OH
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Neal D. Defibaugh
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vol. 5 no. 4 97-107
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esas.2011.08.001

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2211-4599
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  • Published online January 1, 2011.

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© 2011 SAS - The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Burkhard Rischke, MD, PhDa,
  2. Raymond S. Ross, MDb,
  3. Boris A. Jollenbeck, MDc,
  4. Kari B. Zimmers, BSd,* and
  5. Neal D. Defibaugh, BSd
  1. aCenter of Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery, Zurich, Switzerland
  2. bHope Hospital, Manchester, UK
  3. cMagdeburg Hospital, Magdeburg, Germany
  4. dAxioMed Spine Corporation, Garfield Heights, OH
  1. ↵* Corresponding author: Kari B. Zimmers, BS, AxioMed Spine Corporation, R&D, 5350 Transportation Blvd, Suite 18, Garfield Heights, OH 44125; Tel: 216-587-5566; Fax: 216-587-3388. E-mail address: kzimmers{at}axiomed.com
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Burkhard Rischke, Raymond S. Ross, Boris A. Jollenbeck, Kari B. Zimmers, Neal D. Defibaugh
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