Building a Successful Practice of Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Learning, Setting the Goal, and Expanding the Border

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Wooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

Editorial

Junseok Bae et al. Neurospine. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;19(3):571-573.

doi: 10.14245/ns.2244712.356. Epub 2022 Sep 30.

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Wooridul Spine Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

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