New teaching videos availablecoLigne and coAlliance announce three new teaching videos, soon available for healthcare specialists. Live OR videos show tumor resection using coLigne’s ostaPek composite VBR system and GII spinal system. To find out more, contact your local coLigne representative.
5-level lumbar-thoracic tumor resection
Berlin, Germany, 20th May 2008. Charité Berlin, Sektion Muskuloskeletale Tumorchirurgie, anounced a 5-level lumbar-thoracic tumor resection chosing coLigne’s ostaPek composite VBR system and GII spinal system as the state of the art technology for better treatment in spine surgery. This 5-level VBR case represents “a special case as – to our best knowledge – more than 4 segments have not been resected yet”, states Robert Lange, CEO, coLigne AG.
The performance of ostaPek composite
Zurich, Switzerland, 14th May 2008. A breakthrough in ostaPek built for bone technology – the ostaPek composite material for medical implants provides the high strength of metals combined with the biocompatibility and imaging advantages of polymers. For better understanding of the unique characteristics of coLigne’s biomaterial ostaPek composite, coLigne developers introduced their whitepaper “The performance of ostaPek composite”. Contact your coLigne representative or the headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland and read all about the biomechanical properties of implant materials, the modulus of elasticity, stiffness in bending, yield strength of different materials, bending moments and the ASTM F 1717 test results.
