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10. November 2020

icotec ag Receives FDA Clearance for the VADER^® Pedicle System with Bone Cement Augmentation

November 10, 2020 – Altstaetten, Switzerland – icotec ag, the leading medical device manufacture of Carbon/PEEK spinal implants, announces the U.S....

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icotec ag Receives Approvals for Two KONG^®VBR Spinal Systems Made with BlackArmor^® and Ti-iT^® in Europe and the US

June 18, 2020 – Altstaetten, Switzerland – icotec ag announces that the KONG^®-TL and the KONG^®-C vertebral body replacement systems with the unique...

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AO, icotec Join Forces on New Spinal Stabilization System

DAVOS, Switzerland, March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - The AO Foundation and icotec ag announce the successful agreement and kick-off for the joint...

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icotec AG Granted FDA Clearance To Market VADER^®one Pedicle Screw System

July 08, 2019 - Altstaetten, Switzerland – icotec AG, a Swiss company, today announced the VADER^®one pedicle screw system was granted U.S. Food and...

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icotec AG Received FDA Clearance to Market BlackArmor® Carbon/PEEK Interbody Cages

The BlackArmor® Carbon/PEEK cervical and lumbar interbody cages are composed of icotec’s innovative material, which is radiolucent and rapidly...

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icotec goes Australia

We are expending our worldwide distribution network to Australia...

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icotec Events

Vancouver, Canada

17. Apr. - 21. Apr. 2021

AANS - Annual Scientific Meeting 2021

The Annual Scientific Meeting will take place in Vancouver from 17th to 21st April 2021. Save the Date!

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Paris, France

05. May. - 08. May. 2021

Global Spine Congress 2021

The Global Spine Congress 2021 will take place in Paris from May 5 - 8, 2021. Save the Date!

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Boston, United States

29. Sep. - 02. Oct. 2021

North American Spine Society - NASS Annual Meeting 2021

Don't miss the largest Spine Meeting and Exhibition in the World. Save the Date!

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Gothenburg, Sweden

13. Oct. - 15. Oct. 2021

EUROSPINE 2021

EUROSPINE 2021 will take place from 13 to 15 October 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Save the Date!

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Educational Literature

Please find below information on our products and surgical techniques, as well as on our Carbon/PEEK technology, titanium coating, the spine, and trauma. Our knowledge pool is constantly expanding and kept up to date.

icotec Brochures

BlackArmor^® Material

Information brochure about our BlackArmor^® material

Clinical Story Book

Carbon/PEEK history, biomechanical carbon/PEEK, titanium coating, benefits in imaging and radiation therapy, clinical experiences

icotec Surgical Technique Guides

VADER^® Pedicle System

suitable for fenestrated VADER^® pedicle screws in open and minimal invasive surgery

VADER^®one Pedicle System MIS

suitable for VADER^®one pedicle screws in minimal invasive surgery

LightMore^® Pedicle System 6.0

suitable for all VADER^®one pedicle screws in open surgery

ETurn^® TLIF Cage instrument set «rosso»

suitable for all icotec ETurn^® TLIF Cages

PLIF Cage instrument set «rosso»

suitable for all icotec PLIF Cages

KONG^®-TL VBR E

Vertebral body replacement thoracolumbar instruments, suitable for all KONG^®-TL VBR E

Cervical Cage instrument set

suitable for all icotec Cervical Cages

KONG^®-C VBR M

Vertebral body replacement cervical instrumentation, suitable for all KONG^®-C VBR M

Publications on Carbon/PEEK

Nydegger et al. 2013. Spine Radiology, Milano.

Radiologic Evaluation of a Novel Radiolucent CF/PEEK Pedicle Screw Using Fluoroscopy, CT and MRI

Rohner et al. 2005. Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol, 18(3):175-82.

Performance of a composite flow moulded carbon fibre reinforced osteosynthesis plate

Publications on Titanium Coating

Hoppe et al. 2018. J Funct Biomater, 9(1): 23.

First Results of a New Vacuum Plasma Sprayed (VPS) Titanium-Coated Carbon/PEEK Composite Cage for Lumbar Interbody Fusion

Devine et al. 2013. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater, 101(4):591-8.

Coating of carbon fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone implants with titanium to improve bone apposition

Wieling et al. 2008. 8th World Biomaterials Congress.

Improved bone ongrowth to PEEK with CF implants using a Ti VPS-coating

Publications on the Spine

Milavec et al. 2018. GSC 2018

First Clinical Experience with a Carbon/Peek Composite Plating System for Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (Acdf)

Lindtner et al. 2018. Eur Spine J. 2018 Mar 1.

Pedicle screw anchorage of carbon fber‑reinforced PEEK screws under cyclic loading

Suess et al. 2017. Eurospine Congress.

Carbon-fiber enhanced PEEK (cf/PEEK) screws in spinal tumor surgery

Kraetzig et al. 2017. 12th annual meeting DWG.

Carbon fiber reinforced PEEK versus titanium implants – an in vitro comparison of susceptibility artifacts in CT imaging

Lindtner et al. 2017. 12th annual congress DWG.

Does an alternative screw material and augmentation affect pedicle screw loosening?

Suess et al. 2017. Patient Saf Surg., 11:12.

Empty polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages in anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) show slow radiographic fusion that reduces clinical improvement: results from the prospective multicenter "PIERCE-PEEK" study

Choi et al. 2017. Neurosurgery, 80(3S):S131-S137.

Spine Oncology-Metastatic Spine Tumors

Eicker et al. 2017. J Neurosurg Sci., 61(2):222-224.

First experience with Carbon/PEEK pedicle screws

Eicker et al. 2014. 65th annual meeting, DGNC.

First experience with Carbon fiber/ Peek pedicle screws in spine surgery

Kilian et al. 2014. 14th annual congress ISASS.

Radiologic Evaluation of a Novel Radiolucent CF/PEEK Pedicle Screw Using Fluroscopy, CT and MRI

Ruehli. 2015. 75th annual meeting, SGOT.

Clinical Evaluation of a Novel Radiolucent CF/PEEK Pedicle Screw System – Early Experience in Degenerative Cases

Suess et al. 2014. 9th annual meeting DWG.

Fusion characteristics in ACDF with titanium-coated carbonfiber enhanced polyetheretherketone cages (tcCF/PEEK)

Suess et al. 2014. 9th annual meeting, DWG.

First clinical experience with titanium-coated carbonfiber/PEEK screws in spinal tumor surgery

Külling et al. 2013. Eurospine Congress.

Radiologic and Clinical Outcome of TLIF using CF/PEEK Cages Coated with Titanium

Benneker et al. 2014. 9th annual meeting, DWG.

2 years experiences with a new Titanium coated radiolucent TLIF cage

Publications on Radiotherapy

Müller et al. 2020. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2020; 1–9

The dosimetric impact of stabilizing spinal implants in radiotherapy treatment planning with protons and photons: standard titanium alloy vs. radiolucent carbon‐fiber‐reinforced PEEK systems

Poel et al. 2020.

Assessing the advantages of CFR-PEEK over titanium spinal stabilization implants in proton therapy - a phantom study

Poel et al. 2019. ASTRO 60th Annual Meeting.

Titanium vs. CFR-PEEK Spinal Implants in Pencil Beam Scanning

Klippel et al. 2018. SSRMP Annual Meeting

Dosimetric Impact of Titanium and Carbon Implants in Photon Therapy

Ringel et al. 2017. World Neurosurg., 105:294-301.

Radiolucent Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Pedicle Screws for Treatment of Spinal Tumors: Advantages for Radiation Planning and Follow-Up Imaging

The icotec Pedicle Systems are not available in the United States.