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Authors
- Yu-Po Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2755-6290)
- Sohaib Hashmi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-1421)
- Abhinav K. Sharma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4932-6629)
- Michael E. Steinhaus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0348-0754)
- Manaav Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7119-9673)
- Hao‐Hua Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-3889)
- Nitin Bhatia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-3305)
- Paramveer Birring (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8391-8578)
- Zorica Buser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5680-0643)
- Nischal Acharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0349-2034)
- Don Young Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9922-3316)
- Nicole Goldenhersh
Institutions
- Hospital for Special Surgery (US)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- The Spine Institute (US)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Asian Spine Journal
- Published
- 2025-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31616/asj.2024.0350
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.01