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Letter to the Editor concerning “Incidence of adjacent segment degeneration in cervical disc arthroplasty versus anterior cervical decompression and fusion meta-analysis of prospective studies” by Luo et al. (2015) Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 135(2):155–60. doi:10.1007/s00402-014-2125-2

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Hu, Y., Lv, G. Letter to the Editor concerning “Incidence of adjacent segment degeneration in cervical disc arthroplasty versus anterior cervical decompression and fusion meta-analysis of prospective studies” by Luo et al. (2015) Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 135(2):155–60. doi:10.1007/s00402-014-2125-2. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 136, 739–740 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-016-2446-4

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