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- Received March 29, 2007
- Accepted June 15, 2007
- Published online January 1, 2007.
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Copyright SAS - Spine Arthroplasty Society 2007 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Ulrich R. Hähnle, MD, FCS (Ortho)1,2,
- Karen Sliwa, MD, PhD3,
- Ian R. Weinberg, MD, FCS (Neuro)2,
- Barry MBE Sweet, MD, PhD1,
- Malan de Villiers, PhD4,5and
Ulrich R. Hähnle, Ian R. Weinberg, and Malan de Villiers are co-developers of the Kineflex disc and shareholders in SpinalMotion, Mountain View, California.
- Geoffrey P. Candy, PhD6
- 1The Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2Linksfield Park Clinic, Johannesburg
- 3The Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand
- 4The Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Potchefstrom, Potchefstrom, South Africa
- 5Southern Medical, Wpadrand, South Africa
- 6The Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Ulrich Hähnle, PO Box 52040, Saxonwold 2132, Johannesburg, South Africa. (email: hahnleu{at}mdh-africa.org).