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Comment
. 2017 Jul-Sep;12(3):347.
doi: 10.4103/1793-5482.175640.

There is no evidence that laminoplasty results in improved outcomes compared with laminectomy in cervical spinal cord injury without instability

Shayan Abdollah Zadegan  1 , Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar  1
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Comment

There is no evidence that laminoplasty results in improved outcomes compared with laminectomy in cervical spinal cord injury without instability

Shayan Abdollah Zadegan et al. Asian J Neurosurg. 2017 Jul-Sep.
No abstract available

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