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Significantly Improved Outcomes With a Less Invasive Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion Incorporating Total Facetectomy

Ata G Kasis, Laurence A G Marshman, Manoj Krishna, and Chandra K Bhatia

Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34(6):572-577 (2009) PMID 19282736

Original study.

DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181973e35
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