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Surgery for patients with central protruded lumbar discs who have failed conservative therapy

R. A. Beatty Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Pages 373-378 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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