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Volume 27, Issue 7 , Pages 297-300 , July 2009

Degenerative disc and vertebral disease – basic sciences

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PII: S0263-9319(09)00076-3

doi: 10.1016/j.mpsur.2009.03.005

Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 7 , Pages 297-300 , July 2009

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