Repeat surgery after lumbar decompression for herniated disc: the quality implications of hospital and surgeon variation
- 29 February 2012
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Spine Journal
- Vol. 12 (2), 89-97
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spinee.2011.11.010
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