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Kyphoplasty for chronic painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures via unipedicular versus bipedicular approachment: A comparative study in early stage

,Accepted 11 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.09.021

Injury
Volume 41, Issue 4 , Pages 356-359 , April 2010