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Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Ming Yang et al. concerning “Risk factors of new symptomatic vertebral compression fractures in osteoporotic patients undergone percutaneous vertebroplasty” by Ren HL et al. (2015) Eur Spine J;24(4):750–758

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Ren, Hl. Answer to the Letter to the Editor of Ming Yang et al. concerning “Risk factors of new symptomatic vertebral compression fractures in osteoporotic patients undergone percutaneous vertebroplasty” by Ren HL et al. (2015) Eur Spine J;24(4):750–758. Eur Spine J 26, 1561–1563 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-017-5027-5

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