interbody cage
(ĭn′tĕr-bŏd″ĕ )
A hollow, tube-shaped device placed between adjacent vertebral bodies in spinal fusion surgeries to improve or enhance bony fusion (“arthrodesis”). The cage is filled with either a bone graft or with bone graft substitutes.
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