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. 2024 Dec 21;59(6):e861–e867. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1792115

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Fig. 1 — Number of patients included and excluded. Note: *Poor quality radiographs: those in which it was not possible to adequately visualize all the vertebrae and intervertebral spaces between the C2 vertebra and the femoral heads.