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Four year experience with the AO Anterior Thoracolumbar Locking Plate.
Spinal Cord
May 1997
Center for Diseases and Surgery of the Spine, Las Vegas, NV 89106-4806, USA.
Article Synopsis
- For years, spinal surgeons have worked on creating effective single-stage anterior fixation systems for the thoracic and lumbar spine, and early models faced significant issues.
- The AO Anterior Thoracolumbar Locking Plate (ATLP) was developed to address these problems and is made of Commercially Pure titanium, designed for conditions like unstable burst fractures and metastatic tumors between T10 and L5.
- Clinical trials on 25 patients over 38 months showed the ATLP system to be generally safe with some minor complications, such as broken screws, but no broken plates, indicating its effectiveness for anterior spinal column fixation.