Dorso-lumbar spine fractures: recumbent vs. operative treatment
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[Fractures of the dorso-lumbar spine].
This paper is baseti on a study of 166 fractures or fracture-dislocations of the (lorso-lumbar spine occurring in 152 miners tiuring the six-year period ended in 1945. One of the objects of the analysis was to investigate the relationship between anatomical and functional resultsin other words to examine the validity of the assumption that a good anatomical result is indispensable to a good fun...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1980
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1980.64