Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 195-202 , September 2008

Virtual Fluoroscopy

  • Yu-Po Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Yu-Po Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, 350 Dickinson Street, Suite 121, San Diego, CA 92103
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  • C. Max Hoshino, MD
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  • Choll W. Kim, MD, PhD

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 This work was done at UCSD. None of the authors received support of any form from any companies for writing this article.

PII: S1040-7383(08)00049-X

doi: 10.1053/j.semss.2008.06.006

Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 195-202 , September 2008

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