CT Hounsfield Units as a Predictor for the Worsening of Traumatic Vertebral Compression Fractures
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عنوان ژورنال: World Neurosurgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1878-8750
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2016.05.069