spine surgery
Posted By: KPS on 2006-07-28
In Reply to: word in cervical spine surgery - Mary Franciscus
Subject: spine surgery
shot in the dark, but *cortical* biomechanical spacer?? I know cortical bone grafts are used sometimes. just a thought.
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