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G M Yoshida1, R W Nelson, D A Capen

  • 1Complex Spine Clinic, Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center, Downey, California, USA.

American Journal of Orthopedics (Belle Mead, N.J.)
|October 1, 1996
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