Comparison of three calcium phosphate bone graft substitutes from biomechanical, histological, and crystallographic perspectives using a rat posterolateral lumbar fusion model

Engineering & Materials Science

• Apatite 6%
• Bone 65%
• Calcium phosphate 100%
• Cements 42%
• Fusion reactions 54%
• Grafts 89%
• Histology 12%
• Hydroxyapatite 5%
• Mechanical testing 5%
• Phosphates 19%
• Rats 80%

Physics & Astronomy

• apatites 5%
• bones 66%
• calcium phosphates 92%
• cements 55%
• fusion 54%
• histology 11%
• phosphates 17%
• rats 68%
• spine 11%
• substitutes 53%
• vertebrae 6%

Chemical Compounds

• Amount 6%
• Apatite 5%
• Calcium Phosphate 71%
• Phosphate 19%