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4- and 5-level anterior fusions of the cervical spine: “natura non-facit saltus”

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  1. The nomenclature “sagittal balance” must be preferred than the used “geometry”, as Geometry (Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth, metria = measure) is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape and relative position of figures and with properties of space. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry)

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    João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

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A reply on this paper is available at doi: 10.1007/s00586-008-0698-6.

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-008-0851-2

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Franco, J.L.P. 4- and 5-level anterior fusions of the cervical spine: “natura non-facit saltus”. Eur Spine J 17, 1119–1120 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-008-0698-6

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