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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 80:1396 (1998)
© 1998 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

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S. J. Krikler, Ph.D., F.R.C.S.(Orth) and Henrik C. F. Bauer, M.D., Ph.D.

TO THE EDITOR:

I read with interest "Posterior Decompression and Stabilization for Spinal Metastases. Analysis of Sixty-seven Consecutive Patients" (79-A: 514-522, April 1997), by Bauer.

My colleagues and I reviewed a similar number of patients (seventy) who had an operation to treat spinal metastases2. Partly because our study commenced earlier, a wider variety of treatment methods were used for our patients. Eighteen of our patients had posterior instrumentation with Hartshill or Luque rectangles and sublaminar wires.

It is always difficult to compare studies by different authors, particularly when the conventional method of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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