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Download Clinical Papers For Appeals

Here are three clinical papers that you may download to support your appeals process:

1. Response to the Editorial and Points of View Regarding the IDE Study of the CHARITE Artificial Disc; Zindrick; Spine July 2005

2. A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemptions Study of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement With the CHARITE Artificial Disc Versus Lumbar Fusion; Blumenthal; Spine July 2005

3. A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter Food and Drug Administration Investigational Device Exemptions Study of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement With the CHARITE Artificial Disc Versus Lumbar Fusion: Part II; McAfee; Spine July 2005

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