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Letter to the Editor concerning “Anterior stand-alone fusion revisited: a prospective clinical, X-ray and CT investigation” by C. J. Siepe, K. Stosch-Wiechert, F. Heider, et al. Eur Spine J; 2014 Dec 5. DOI 10.1007/s00586-014-3642-y: [Epub ahead of print]

Can the Radiological Evaluation on the Sagittal Alignment be ignored at the Final Follow-up?

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, Yuhuangding Hospital, Shandong, China

    Jianqiang Ni, Xin Wang & Lugang Zhou

  2. Department of Orthopedics, Beijing ShiJiTan Hospital Affiliated Beijing Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

    Xiutong Fang

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Ni, J., Wang, X., Zhou, L. et al. Letter to the Editor concerning “Anterior stand-alone fusion revisited: a prospective clinical, X-ray and CT investigation” by C. J. Siepe, K. Stosch-Wiechert, F. Heider, et al. Eur Spine J; 2014 Dec 5. DOI 10.1007/s00586-014-3642-y: [Epub ahead of print]. Eur Spine J 24, 1326–1327 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-015-3819-z

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