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Giant-cell tumours of the spine are very rare. They occur mainly in long bones. We report a patient with a giant-cell tumour of the lumbar spine which had been operated on at another hospital 5 months previously as a protruded lumbar intervertebral disc.
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Inci, S., Akbay, A. & Bertan, V. Giant-cell tumour of the lumbar spine. Case report. Spinal Cord 31, 412–414 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1993.69
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