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a Specimen wrapped in a plaster cast with L3 exposed before undergoing compressive loading to produce the initial fracture. b Schematic of mechanical test setup for fracture initiation and fatigue loading. c Representative radiograph of a specimen after vertebroplasty augmentation of the induced fracture of L3
