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icotec Events
San Diego, United States
07. Oct. - 10. Oct. 2020

North American Spine Society - NASS Annual Meeting 2020

Don't miss the largest Spine Meeting and Exhibition in the World. We are on site for you!

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Vienna, Austria
07. Oct. - 09. Oct. 2020

EUROSPINE 2020

Get to know the different icotec solutions for tumor and degenerative diseases. We are looking forward to meeting you at our booth in Vienna!

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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

PDF, 3'540 KB

Clinical Story Book

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

PDF, 235 KB

icotec Factsheets

VADER®one Pedicle System/ LightMore®Pedicle System 6.0

Brief overview of the breadth of our portfolio

PDF, 948 KB

ETurn® TLIF Cage

Brief overview of the breadth of our portfolio

PDF, 346 KB

icotec PLIF Cage

Brief overview of the breadth of our portfolio

PDF, 433 KB

icotec Cervical Cage

Brief overview of the breadth of our portfolio

PDF, 203 KB

icotec Surgical Technique Guides

ETurn® TLIF Cage instrument set «rosso»

suitable for all icotec ETurn® TLIF Cages

PDF, 854 KB

PLIF Cage instrument set «rosso»

suitable for all icotec PLIF Cages

PDF, 959 KB

Cervical Cage instrument set

suitable for all icotec Cervical Cages

PDF, 1'125 KB

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

PDF, 8 KB

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

Performance of a composite flow moulded carbon fibre reinforced osteosynthesis plate

PubMed

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

PubMed

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

PubMed

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

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

PDF, 2'613 KB

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)

PDF, 262 KB

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

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

Springer

Suess et al. 2017. Eurospine Congress.

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

PDF, 946 KB

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

PDF, 163 KB

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

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

PDF, 130 KB

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

PubMed

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

PubMed

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

Spine Oncology-Metastatic Spine Tumors

PubMed

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

First experience with Carbon/PEEK pedicle screws

PubMed

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

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

PDF, 4'320 KB

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

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

PDF, 467 KB

Ruehli. 2015. 75th annual meeting, SGOT.

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

PDF, 94 KB

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

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

PDF, 278 KB

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

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

PDF, 257 KB

Külling et al. 2013. Eurospine Congress.

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

PDF, 9 KB

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

2 years experiences with a new Titanium coated radiolucent TLIF cage

PDF, 266 KB

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