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On total disc replacement.
Low back pain consumes a large part of the community's resources dedicated to health care and sick leave. Back disorders also negatively affect the individual leading to pain suffering, decreased quality-of-life and disability. Chronic low back pain (CLBP) due to degenerative disc disease (DDD) is today often treated with fusion when conservative treatment has failed and symptoms are severe. Th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Orthopaedics & Traumatology: Surgery & Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1877-0568
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2013.06.018