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01-04-2006 | Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor concerning “Charité total disc replacement: clinical and radiographical results after an average follow-up of 17 years” (M. Putzier et al.)

Author: Karin Büttner-Janz

Published in: European Spine Journal | Issue 4/2006

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I read with interest the paper by Putzier et al. [13] describing long-term clinical and radiographic results in the earliest patients implanted with the CHARITÉ Artificial Disc. As one of the two inventors of the device; the surgeon of record for all of the first 50 operated patients over several years in conjunction with my doctoral thesis [2]; and having knowledge of the other 21 patients including their clinical outcomes; I believe it is necessary to put the results described in the paper into the proper context. …

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Title: Letter to the Editor concerning “Charité total disc replacement: clinical and radiographical results after an average follow-up of 17 years” (M. Putzier et al.)
Author: Karin Büttner-Janz
Publication date: 01-04-2006
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Spine Journal / Issue 4/2006
Print ISSN: 0940-6719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-006-1081-0

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