Response to the Letter: Spinal Implants Can be Inserted in Patients With Deep Spine Infection-Results from a Large Cohort Study.

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Published in Spine (Phila Pa 1976) on April 18, 2017

Authors

Hwee Weng Dennis Hey1, Nathaniel Li Wen Ng, Chuen-Seng Tan, Dale Fisher, Anupama Vasudevan, Gabriel Ka-Po Liu, Joseph Thambiah, Naresh Kumar, Leok-Lim Lau, Hee-Kit Wong, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah

Author Affiliations

1: National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore Singapore.

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