MARQUETTE, Mich., July 10 (HSMN NewsFeed) — Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc., a leading innovator in the design and manufacture of spinal and orthopaedic implants and instruments, has named Thomas J. McLeer as its new Chief Marketing Officer & General Manager of Spinal Operations, effective June 1, 2009. Mr. McLeer, who had been Vice President of [...]
Panayiotis N. Smyrnis1, 2 , Nicholas Sekouris3 and George Papadopoulos4 (1) 5th Orthopedic Department, KAT Hospital, Athens, Greece (2) 3, Neofytou Douka str., 10674 Athens, Greece (3) Nuffield Orthopaedic Center, Oxford, UK (4) Division of Statistics, Maths and Computing, Science Department, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece Received: 15 April 2008 Revised: 27 September 2008 Accepted: 24 January 2009 Published online: 14 February 2009 Abstract Existing predictive signs as available in current literature [...]
Sharon Baider7 Jul 09 13:57 Mazor Surgical Technologies Ltd. today announced the first use of its SpineAssist robotic spinal surgical procedure aid for surgery of the neck vertebrae. The successful surgery increases SpineAssist’s potential market by 30%. Mazor said the successful new application for the SpineAssist – surgical procedures on neck vertebra through the nape [...]
Alexander G. Hadjipavlou1, 3 , Michael N. Tzermiadianos1, Kyriakos N. Kakavelakis1 and Phillip Lander2 (1) Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (2) Department of Radiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA (3) University Hospital of Heraklion, P.O. BOX 1352, 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece Received: 3 April 2008 Revised: 10 July 2008 Accepted: 14 September 2008 Published online: 25 November 2008 Abstract Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation is the treatment of choice for [...]
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