Schmorl's Node of Primarily Developmental Cause and Schmorl's Node of Primarily Acquired Cause: Two Related Yet Different Entities

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Journal Quant Imaging Med Surg

Specialty Radiology

Date 2023 Jun 7

PMID 37284078

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Yi Xiang J Wang

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