BlackArmor® Carbon/PEEK implants – engineered for spinal tumour surgery
PROMOTIONAL FEATURE BlackArmor Carbon/PEEK spinal implants from icotec offer new opportunities in radiation therapy of a spinal tumour The spine...
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icotec’s Ti-iT® osseointegration technology is a clinical success story. Never changed since its introduction eight years ago, icotec’s rough plasma...
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Get acquainted with three of the six abstract submissions for EUROPSINE 2018, which have been elected as Best of Show...
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs...
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Spine deformities, such as idiopathic scoliosis and kyphosis (also known as "hunchback"), are characterised by an abnormal curvature in the...
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