A survey-based study of wrong-level lumbar spine surgery: the scope of the problem and current practices in place to help avoid these errors.

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Published in World Neurosurg on April 02, 2012

Authors

Michael W Groff1, Joshua E Heller, Eric A Potts, Praveen V Mummaneni, Christopher I Shaffrey, Justin S Smith

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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