TO THE EDITOR

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital Of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, P.R. China.
² Department of Orthopaedics, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China.

Comment

Jiaquan Luo et al. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019.

. 2019 Jun 1;44(11):E693.

doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003042.

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital Of Gannan Medical University, Ganzhou, P.R. China.
² Department of Orthopaedics, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China.

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