Brau, Salvador A. MD, FACS*†; Delamarter, Rick B. MD†; Kropf, Michael A. MD†; Watkins, Robert G. III MD‡; Williams, Lytton A. MD‡; Schiffman, Michael L. MD§; Bae, Hyun W. MD¶
From the *Department of Surgery (Vascular), Keck School of Medicine, USC; †Department of Surgery, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; ‡Department of Orthopedics, Keck School of Medicine, USC; §Sothern California Orthopedic Physicians, Los Angeles; and ¶L. A. Spine Institute, Santa Monica, CA.
Acknowledgment date: October 29, 2007. Acceptance date: February 4, 2008.
The device(s)/drug(s) is/are FDA-approved or approved by corresponding national agency for this indication.
No funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.
IRB approval was not required for this study.
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