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03/01/2012 - "This finding was studied to determine if it would be helpful in identifying fusion on radiographs obtained in 148 patients who underwent an ACDF in which a PEEK cage was filled with local autograft bone (bone spurs in the present cases). "
01/01/2013 - "We present the design of the CASCADE trial on effectiveness of ceramic cages versus PEEK cages in patients with cervical disc herniation and/or osteophytes. "
07/01/2015 - "Twenty-six patients who underwent ACDF using a stand-alone PEEK cage packed with local osteophytes and cancellous allograft bone from January 2010 to January 2012 were enrolled in this study. "
11/01/2011 - "Self-locking stand-alone PEEK cages packed with excised local osteophytes and calcium sulfate are safe and effective. "

06/01/2007 - "The goal of our study was to investigate a series of patients with circumferential fixation using anterior PEEK cages for degenerative lumbar spine disorders with a specific interest in the local lordosis. "
04/01/2015 - "In all patients, the PEEK cage maintained a significant increase in segmental lordosis at all postoperative visits. "
01/01/2014 - "The most pronounced loss of lordosis was found in PEEK cages (-4.1°). "
01/01/2011 - "The PEEK cage is comparable to the anterior cervical plate in the maintenance of post-operative cervical lordosis."
01/01/2011 - "Regional lordosis for the PEEK cage and plate was decreased by 2.5 and 2.1 degrees, respectively for the same time period. "

07/01/2012 - "A preliminary study of three and four levels degenerative cervical spondylosis treated with peek cages and anterior cervical plate."
07/01/2013 - "[Use of the PEEK cage in cervical spondylosis treatment]."
02/01/2011 - "Cervical spondylosis patients with sympathetic symptoms may be managed successfully with ACDF using PEEK cages. "
02/01/2011 - "Retrospective analysis was undertaken for 39 patients who were diagnosed as cervical spondylosis with sympathetic symptoms and underwent ACDF with PEEK cages. "
08/01/2007 - "ACDF using PEEK cages packed with DBM is a safe and efficient method for treatment of multilevel cervical disc disease and spondylosis. "

04/01/2015 - "The use of lumbar ALIF with PEEK cages and adjacent vertebral autografts in spinal deformity long fusion surgeries is an effective and safe procedure. "
08/01/2015 - "Furthermore, loss of reduction with subsequent varus deformity was less frequently observed in the CFR-PEEK plate group. "
04/01/2015 - "From April 2008 to April 2012, 40 patients (5 males and 35 females, mean age 67 ± 9 years) with coronal and/or sagittal spine deformities underwent staged corrective surgery combined with lumbar ALIF using PEEK cages at the L3-L4, L4-L5 or L5-S1 segment with posterior long (≥ 4 levels) instrumentation. "
04/01/2015 - "Radiological evaluation of anterior lumbar fusion using PEEK cages with adjacent vertebral autograft in spinal deformity long fusion surgeries."
08/01/2014 - "Radiographic analysis of PEEK cage and FRA in adult spinal deformity fused to sacrum."

08/01/2012 - "Anterior interbody fusion of the cervical spine have become the gold standard for treating spinal diseases, hence the aim of this study was to compare long term follow up results in patients with cervical disk disease treated with anterior PEEK cage implantation and without it in anterior approach. "
05/01/2009 - "Forty patients with degenerative spinal disease were treated with a monosegmental spondylodesis (ventrally, 1 PEEK-cage; dorsally, a screw and rod system), and randomly placed in two groups. "