To Plate or Not to Plate after a Single- or Two-Level Anterior Cervical Discectomy: Fusion with Cage-Plate Construct or Stand-Alone Cage
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Copyright C 2017 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 eISSN 1976-7846 • www.asianspinejournal.org Received Jan 11, 2017; Accepted Jan 11, 2017 Corresponding author: S.R. Manoharan University of Alabama, Birmingham Medical Center, FOT 960, 20th St S Birmingham, AL, USA 35294. Tel: +205-934-8718, E-mail: [email protected]
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دوره 11 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017