BEST PEDICLE SCREW IN THE WORLD? (Orthopedics This Week)
Israel-based Expanding Orthopedics Inc. announced that the Rizzoli Institute in Bologna, Italy, has installed more than 1,000 of Expanding Orthopedics’ XPED Expanding Pedicle Screws. The specialty screws are designed to provide enhanced anchoring in compromised bone. Stefano Boriani, M.D., director of the Department of Oncologic and Degenerative Spine Surgery, said, “I have started to use the XPED System to obtain better pull-out strength in my degenerative and oncology patients that are exposed to numerous complications related to frai...