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Benoist, M. The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the “medical” articles in the European Spine Journal, 2009. Eur Spine J 19, 3–10 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-009-1244-x
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