45 Years Ago in Spine

45 Years Ago in Spine

R.D. Rao / The Spine Journal 7 (2007) 61–67 [48] Zhu W, Rawlins BA, Boachie-Adjei O, et al. Combined bone morphogenetic protein-2 and -7 gene transfer...

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R.D. Rao / The Spine Journal 7 (2007) 61–67 [48] Zhu W, Rawlins BA, Boachie-Adjei O, et al. Combined bone morphogenetic protein-2 and -7 gene transfer enhances osteoblastic differentiation and spine fusion in a rodent model. J Bone Mineral Res 2004;19:2021–32. [49] Cunningham BW, Kotani Y, McNulty PS, Cappuccino A, Kanayama M, Fedder IL, McAfee PC. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus open thoracotomy for anterior thoracic spinal fusion: a comparative radiographic, biomechanical, and histologic analysis in a sheep model. Spine 1998;23:1333–40. [50] Cook SD, Dalton JE, Tan EH, Whitecloud TS 3rd, Rueger DC. In vivo evaluation of recombinant human osteogenic protein (rhOP-1) implants as a bone graft substitute for spinal fusions. Spine 1994;19: 1655–63. [51] Magin MN, Delling G. Improved lumbar vertebral interbody fusion using rhOP-1: a comparison of autogenous bone graft, bovine hydroxylapatite (Bio-Oss), and BMP-7 (rhOP-1) in sheep. Spine 2001;26:469–78. [52] Boden SD, Titus L, Hair G, et al. Lumbar spine fusion by local gene therapy with a cDNA encoding a novel osteoinductive protein (LMP1). Spine 1998;23:2486–92.

45 Years Ago in Spine

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in 1961 [1]. Improvements led, 14 years later, to Sir Godfrey Hounsfield’s description of computer assisted tomography [2], for which Hounsfield received the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine.

References A method for restructuring images of soft tissues from measurements of discontinuities of radiodensity was described by William Henry Oldendorf

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