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01-10-2010 | Editorial

Does negative plus negative give positive? The value of combining intradiscal treatment strategies

Authors: Claudius Thomé, Bernhard Meyer

Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica | Issue 10/2010

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Combining different treatment strategies is common practice in medical therapy by pharmaceutical agents. Why not do the same in spine surgery? …

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Title: Does negative plus negative give positive? The value of combining intradiscal treatment strategies
Authors: Claudius Thomé
Bernhard Meyer
Publication date: 01-10-2010
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: Acta Neurochirurgica / Issue 10/2010
Print ISSN: 0001-6268
Electronic ISSN: 0942-0940
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-010-0727-1

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