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Letter to the Editor concerning “Artificial intelligence in predicting early-onset adjacent segment degeneration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion” by Rudisill SS, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07238-3)

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Dai, ZH. Letter to the Editor concerning “Artificial intelligence in predicting early-onset adjacent segment degeneration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion” by Rudisill SS, et al. (Eur Spine J [2022]; doi: 10.1007/s00586-022-07238-3). Eur Spine J 31, 3159–3160 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022-07354-0

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