Recent news on Lumbar Spinal Fusion

Depuy Spine Introduces New Vertigraft® VG2® TLIF Allograft ...  -  May 23, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...a new bone product designed to facilitate graft insertion and bone growth during transforaminal lumbar spinal fusion (TLIF) surgery.

WG Bradley, Jr. for the Expert Panel on Neurologic Imaging  -  May 9, 2007
AJNR (subscription),8 Similar scans may be helpful in detecting and localizing the site of painful pseudoarthrosis following lumbar spinal fusion. 9

No Preemption For J&J Against Charite Spine Surgery Victims  -  Apr 25, 2007
Lawyers and Settlements,J&J's main selling point is that disc replacement is more effective than lumbar spinal fusion surgery, where the damaged disc is removed and the vertebrae

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