Reviewer's Comment to "The association between preoperative MRI findings and clinical improvement in patients included in the NORDSTEN spinal stenosis trial" by J. Aaen et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07317-5): does the severity of radiological stenosis influence post-operative results following spinal decompression?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reviewer's Comment to "The association between preoperative MRI findings and clinical improvement in patients included in the NORDSTEN spinal stenosis trial" by J. Aaen et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07317-5): does the severity of radiological stenosis influence post-operative results following spinal decompression?

Published:2022-08-18 Issue:10 Volume:31 Page:2786-2787
ISSN:0940-6719
Container-title:European Spine Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Eur Spine J

Author:

Schizas Constantin^ORCID

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Surgery

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00586-022-07350-4.pdf

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