TURKISH NEUROSURGERY, vol.27, no.6, pp.975-990, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
AIM: Fusion development is the primary goal in spinal surgeries that are conducted for the treatment of vertebral body pathologies such as trauma, tumor and infection. Stabilization using metal plate screws together either with an autograft, allograft or xenograft is used. We evaluated fusion development in stabilizations that were carried out with xenograft (XG) with XG plate-screw (XPS) and XG with metal plate-screw (MPS) systems in dogs' lumbar vertebrae (L5-7 segment) in terms of radiological, biomechanical and histopathological aspects.