ReviewJournal of spine surgery (Hong Kong)2020
Tantalum: the next biomaterial in spine surgery?
Review in Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Stand-alone porous titanium cages for anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: clinical outcomes in a multicenter experience.Neurosurgical review · 2026Observational
- Porous tantalum cage loaded with CGF promotes interbody fusion in a rat XLIF model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Full-thickness osteochondral defect repair using a biodegradable bilayered scaffold of porous zinc and chondroitin sulfate hydrogel.Bioactive materials · 2024Article
- Fundamentals of Mechanobiology and Potential Applications in Spinal Fusion.International journal of spine surgery · 2023Article
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- Experimental study of a 3D printed permanent implantable porous Ta-coated bone plate for fracture fixation.Bioactive materials · 2022Article
- [Application progress of implantation in surgical treatment of cervical tuberculosis].Zhongguo xiu fu chong jian wai ke za zhi = Zhongguo xiufu chongjian waike zazhi = Chinese journal of reparative and reconstructive surgery · 2022Review
- Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Nanotubes: Ultrasmall Nanostructures to Engineer Antibacterial and Improved Dental Adhesives and Composites.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Tantalum is a porous metal, whose elastic modulus, high frictional properties and biocompatibility make it an ideal construct to facilitate adequate bony fusion in spine surgery. Since 2015, the published literature on clinical outcomes of tantalum in spine surgery has more than doubled. A review of the literature was performed on the PubMed (MEDLINE) database on January 27, 2019, for papers pertinent to the use of tantalum metal in spine surgery. Thirteen studies were included in this review. For cervical spine, we found increased fusion rates in autograft alone compared to tantalum standalone (92.8%
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