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Authors’ reply to the Letters to the Editor of T. Smoljanovic et al. concerning “An update on bone substitutes for spinal fusion”, Eur Spine J (2009) 18:783–799 by M. Miyazaki et al.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ahmet Alanay

  2. Istanbul Spine Center, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Abide-i Hürriyet cad. No. 290, Sisli, 34403, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ahmet Alanay

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan

    Masashi Miyazaki & Hiroshi Tsumura

  4. Department of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jeffrey C. Wang

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Miyazaki, M., Tsumura, H., Wang, J.C. et al. Authors’ reply to the Letters to the Editor of T. Smoljanovic et al. concerning “An update on bone substitutes for spinal fusion”, Eur Spine J (2009) 18:783–799 by M. Miyazaki et al.. Eur Spine J 19, 1389–1391 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-010-1413-y

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