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The 'armed concrete' approach: stent-screw-assisted internal fixation (SAIF) reconstructs and internally fixates the most severe osteoporotic vertebral fractures
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  • Daniela Distefano Department of Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pietro Scarone Department of Neurosurgery, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maurizio Isalberti Department of Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Luigi La Barbera Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Sainte-Justine Clinical Hospital Center, Montréal, Quebec, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tomaso Villa Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Giuseppe Bonaldi Department of Neurosurgery, Casa di Cura Igea, Milano, Lombardia, Italy PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Joshua A Hirsch Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alessandro Cianfoni Department of Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland Department of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Daniela Distefano, Department of Neuroradiology, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland; daniela.distefano{at}eoc.ch
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Distefano D, Scarone P, Isalberti M, et al
The 'armed concrete' approach: stent-screw-assisted internal fixation (SAIF) reconstructs and internally fixates the most severe osteoporotic vertebral fractures

Publication history

  • Received July 6, 2020
  • Revised August 21, 2020
  • Accepted August 24, 2020
  • First published September 16, 2020.
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December 15, 2020

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