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04.08.2020 | Author's reply
Answer to the Letter to the Editor of O. Ersen concerning “Strap stabilization for proximal junctional kyphosis prevention in instrumented posterior spinal fusion’’ by Rodriguez-Fontan F, et al. (Eur Spine J; [2020]:1287–1296, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-020-06291-0)
verfasst von:
Francisco Rodriguez-Fontan, Bradley J. Reeves, Andriy Noshchenko, David Ou-Yang, Christopher J. Kleck, Christopher Cain, Evalina Burger-Van der Walt, Vikas V. Patel
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European Spine Journal
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Ausgabe 9/2020
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Thank you for your interesting comments to our study. Mersilene tape is non-absorbable and has minimal tissue reactivity; hence, whatever tension it gets in vivo is technically preserved and doesn’t decrease over time. Viswanathan et al. show an interesting biomechanical comparative study using Mersilene tape and sublaminar bands. Although significant, whether clinically relevant, yet, has to be tested. …