Zeiter, Stephan DVM*†; Montavon, Pierre DVM†; Schneider, Erich PhD*; Ito, Keita MD, ScD*‡
From the *AO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland, †Veterinary Clinic for Small Animal Surgery, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, and ‡Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Accepted for publication December 22, 2003.
The authors have an affiliation with the AO Foundation, which is partly funded by royalties from licenses granted to Synthes-Stratec and Mathys Medical Ltd. The authors receive nothing of value. All other funding sources supporting this work and all other institutional or corporate affiliations of the authors are acknowledged in a footnote in this work.
The devices that are the subject of this manuscript are not FDA approved and are not commercially available in the United States.
The primary institution has approved the protocol contained in this work involving animals and all experimentation was conducted in conformity with ethical and humane principles of research.
Reprints: Keita Ito, MD, ScD, AO Research Institute, Clavadelerstrasse, Davos Platz 7270, Switzerland (e-mail: [email protected]).
