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Reviewer's Comment to "The association between preoperative MRI findings and clinical improvement in patients included in the NORDSTEN spinal stenosis trial" by J. Aaen et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07317-5): does the severity of radiological stenosis influence post-operative results following spinal decompression?

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Schizas, C. Reviewer's Comment to "The association between preoperative MRI findings and clinical improvement in patients included in the NORDSTEN spinal stenosis trial" by J. Aaen et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07317-5): does the severity of radiological stenosis influence post-operative results following spinal decompression?. Eur Spine J 31, 2786–2787 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022-07350-4

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