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Pulmonary embolism associated with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) after vertebroplasty. A complication more often than one thinks

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Petridis, A.K., Maslehaty, H., Eichenhofer, T. et al. Pulmonary embolism associated with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) after vertebroplasty. A complication more often than one thinks. Acta Neurochir 155, 319–320 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-012-1584-x

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