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Spine surgeons love a good myth-busting session, and few ideas spark more debate than this one: Can the posterior tension band really remain intact in fractures of the ankylosed spine — and if so, can you not operate?

For decades, the ankylosed spine has been treated like a long, brittle bone just waiting to snap catastrophically.


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