Longer Screws Can Reduce the Stress on the Upper Instrumented Vertebra With Long Spinal Fusion Surgery: A Finite Element Analysis Study.
Shin OeKengo NaritaKazuhiro HasegawaRaghu N NatarajanYu YamatoTomohiko HasegawaGo YoshidaTomohiro BannoHideyuki ArimaYuki MiharaHiroki UshirozakoKoichiro IdeTomohiro YamadaYuh WatanabeYukihiro MatsuyamaPublished in: Global spine journal (2021)
Increasing ORPS to 81.8% or more reduced the load on the UIV. To prevent UIV fracture, the PS length in the UIV should be more than ORPS 81.8%.