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Full endoscopic, bilateral over-the-top decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis

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Siepe, C.J., Sauer, D. & Michael Mayer, H. Full endoscopic, bilateral over-the-top decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis. Eur Spine J 27 (Suppl 4), 563–565 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-018-5656-3

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