CORR Insights(®): Sacral Insufficiency Fractures Are Common After High-dose Radiation for Sacral Chordomas Treated With or Without Surgery

Overview

Journal Clin Orthop Relat Res

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2015 Nov 1

PMID 26519195

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Authors

Joshua C Patt

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