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Admission and Acute Complication Rate for Outpatient Lumbar Microdiscectomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Andrew Nataraj*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Abstract

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Editorial
Copyright
Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2010

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