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Lumbar disc herniation—to operate or not to operate?

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The synopsis was written by Martina Habeck, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. TF Witham is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and ZL Gokaslan is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Spine Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.,

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Timothy F Witham declared he has no competing interests.

Ziya L Gokaslan has declared associations with the following companies/organizations: AO North America (board member, fellowship support), Spinal Kinetics (stock shareholder/owner, medical advisory board member), Synthes Spine (research support, grants) and US Spine (stock shareholder, medical advisory board member).

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Witham, T., Gokaslan, Z. Lumbar disc herniation—to operate or not to operate?. Nat Rev Neurol 3, 316–317 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneuro0499

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