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Modic changes: “Age, si quid agis”

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    João Luiz Pinheiro Franco

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The reply on this paper is available at doi:10.1007/s00586-008-0807-6.

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00586-008-0850-3

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Franco, J.L.P. Modic changes: “Age, si quid agis”. Eur Spine J 17, 1766–1768 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-008-0804-9

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