Performing a cost analysis in spine outcomes research: comparing ventral and dorsal approaches for cervical spondylotic myelopathy.

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Published in Neurosurgery on April 01, 2012

Authors

Robert G Whitmore1, J Sanford Schwartz, Sydney Simmons, Sherman C Stein, Zoher Ghogawala

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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