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01-01-2008 | Letter

Vertebral height restoration: deflating the rhetoric

Author: F. McKiernan

Published in: Osteoporosis International | Issue 1/2008

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Title: Vertebral height restoration: deflating the rhetoric
Author: F. McKiernan
Publication date: 01-01-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Osteoporosis International / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 0937-941X
Electronic ISSN: 1433-2965
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-007-0405-1

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