Response to Reply to the Letter to the Editor Concerning "Gebauer Et Al.: Subdental Synchondrosis and Anatomy of the Axis in Aging: a Histomorphometric Study on 30 Autopsy Cases. Eur Spine J 15(3):292-298, 2006": The Basis of the Dens Axis. Where Is...

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Journal Eur Spine J

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2008 Oct 24

PMID 18946686

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Xiao-Ping Wang

Zhi-Cheng Deng

Zhen-jiao Liang

Yu-min Tu

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