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. 2021 Sep;18(3):648-650.
doi: 10.14245/ns.2142788.394. Epub 2021 Sep 30.

Spinal Tuberculosis: Always Understand, Often Prevent, Sometime Cure

Zhimin Pan  1   2 , Zujue Cheng  2 , Jeffrey C Wang  3 , Wei Zhang  4 , Min Dai  1 , Bin Zhang  1
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Spinal Tuberculosis: Always Understand, Often Prevent, Sometime Cure

Zhimin Pan et al. Neurospine. 2021 Sep.
No abstract available

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The authors have nothing to disclose.

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Fig. 1.
A patient with kyphotic spinal tuberculosis (white arrows indicate tuberculotic lesions). The written informed consent had been received from the patient for publication.
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