Letter to the Editor concerning “Myelopathy disability index: establishing criteria for mild, moderate and severe impairment in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy” by Pons Carreto A et al. (Eur Spine J; 2023: 10.1007/s00586-022

Letter to the Editor concerning “Myelopathy disability index: establishing criteria for mild, moderate and severe impairment in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy” by Pons Carreto A et al. (Eur Spine J; 2023: 10.1007/s00586-022–07506-2)

Published:2023-02-11 Issue:4 Volume:32 Page:1486-1487
ISSN:0940-6719
Container-title:European Spine Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Eur Spine J

Author:

Lawson McLean Aaron^ORCID,Schwarz Falko

Funder

Universitätsklinikum Jena

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Surgery

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00586-023-07575-x.pdf

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