Kee Kim, MD, and Rudolph Shrot, MD, are associate professors of neurosurgery at UC Davis who have performed the procedure. The surgery uses bone marrow-derived adult stem cells to promote bone tissue growth as part of a nationwide, multicenter clinical trial of the therapy.
The first procedure in the trial at UC Davis was recently performed in an anterior cervical discectomy. The stem cells were derived from a donor’s bone marrow and grown in culture to a high concentration.
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