Answer to the Letter to the Editor of M. Saltychev concerning "To pool or not to pool. Comment on 'the efficacy of primary sacroiliac joint fusion for low back pain caused by sacroiliac joint pathology: a systematic review and meta-analysis'" by A. Abbas, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]: doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07291-y)

Aazad Abbas¹, Jin Tong Du², Jay Toor², Anne Versteeg², Joel A Finkelstein^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada. aazad.abbas@mail.utoronto.ca.
² Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, 149 College Street Room 508-A, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
³ Division of Spinal Surgery and Orthopaedics, University of Toronto, 149 College St 5th floor, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
⁴ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada.

Comment

Aazad Abbas et al. Eur Spine J. 2023 May.

. 2023 May;32(5):1853-1855.

doi: 10.1007/s00586-023-07614-7. Epub 2023 Mar 22.

Aazad Abbas¹, Jin Tong Du², Jay Toor², Anne Versteeg², Joel A Finkelstein^{3

4}

¹ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada. aazad.abbas@mail.utoronto.ca.
² Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, 149 College Street Room 508-A, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
³ Division of Spinal Surgery and Orthopaedics, University of Toronto, 149 College St 5th floor, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
⁴ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON, M4N 3M5, Canada.

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Comment on

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