Single-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Interbody Fusion: A Comparison between Porous Tantalum and Polyetheretherketone Cages.

Edoardo MazzucchiGiuseppe La Rocca Andrea PernaFabrizio PignottiGianluca GalieriVincenzo De SantisPierluigi RinaldiFrancesco Ciro TamburrelliGiovanni Sabatino

Published in: Journal of personalized medicine (2022)

In a retrospective analysis of two groups of patients with at least one year of follow-up, a stand-alone PEEK cage showed superior clinical results, with improved cervical lordosis, compared to a stand-alone porous tantalum cage. Further studies are needed to confirm these data.

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