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Table 1 Features of tissues and materials

From: Relationship between screw sagittal angle and stress on endplate of adjacent segments after anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion with internal fixation: a Chinese finite element study

Tissues and materials

Elastic modulus(MPa)

Poisson’s ratio

Cortical bone

10,000.00

0.29

Cancellous bone

100.00

0.29

Posterior structure

3500.00

0.29

Endplate

5.00

0.40

Annulus fibrosus

2.50

0.40

Nucleus pulposus

1.50

0.49

Anterior longitudinal ligament

15

Posterior longitudinal ligament

10

Interspinal ligament

2

Ligamentum flavum

5

Capsular ligament

7

Steel plate

11,0000.00

0.30

Screw

11,0000.00

0.30

Bone graft

3500.00

0.30