The use of vancomycin powder in modern spine surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis of the clinical evidence.

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  2015

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  World Neurosurgery

• Publication date

  2015-05-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.wneu.2014.12.033PMID 25535069
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