∗Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology, University Campus BioMedico of Rome, Rome, Italy
†Ferguson Laboratory for Orthopedic and Spine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
‡Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
§Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Gianluca Vadalà, MD, PhD, University Hospital Campus BioMedico of Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo 200, 00128 Rome, Italy; E-mail: [email protected]
Received 20 October, 2015
Revised 7 June, 2016
Accepted 10 June, 2016
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
The Research Grant of the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research (MIUR-PRIN-200938NT8Z), the Research Grant for Young Investigator of the Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2010-2318448), the BIOSPINA award of the Italian Society of Spine Surgery (SICV&GIS), and the NASS Traveling fellowship award funds were received in support of this work.
Relevant financial activities outside the submitted work: grants.
The authors would like to acknowledge the AO Foundation Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program for providing the CT image.
