Tuberculosis of Sacrum
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Copyright C 2014 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 eISSN 1976-7846 • www.asianspinejournal.org Received Jan 2, 2014: Revised Jan 2, 2014; Accepted Jan 2, 2014 Corresponding author: Viroj Wiwanitkit Faculty of Medicine, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia; Wiwanitkit House, Bangkhae, Bangkok, Thailand Tel: +866624132436, Fax: +866624132436, E-mail: [email protected] Tuberculosis of Sacrum
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