InVivo and InVitro Study of a Polylactide-Fiber-Reinforced β-Tricalcium Phosphate Composite Cage in an Ovine Anterior Cervical Intercorporal

1 Neurosurgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Turku University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland 2 Institute of Biomedical Technology, University of Tampere, 33014 Tampere, Finland 3 Science Center, Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, 33521 Tampere, Finland 4 Bioretec Ltd., Hermiankatu 22, 33720 Tampere, Finland 5 Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, 33014 Tampere, Finland 6 Department of Plastic Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, 33521 Tampere, Finland 7 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90014 Oulu, Finland 8 Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Medicine, Turku University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland 9 Department of Pathology, Turku University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland 10Department of Radiology, Turku University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland 11Department of Eye, Ear, and Oral Diseases, Tampere University Hospital, P.O. Box 2000, 33521 Tampere, Finland 12Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, 33101 Tampere, Finland 13Orthopedic Research Unit, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, University of Turku, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, 20520 Turku, Finland