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Brooks, M.K., Peterkin, Y., Ortiz, A.O. (2017). Biopsy for Spine Infection. In: Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43326-4_9

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