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Obeid, I., Boissière, L. & Vital, JM. C4 anterior cervical corpectomy with fusion for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Eur Spine J 22, 2907–2909 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-013-3102-0
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