title: Answer to the Letter to the Editor of M. D. Sewell et al. concerning "Virtually bloodless posterior midline exposure of the lumbar spine using the 'para-midline' fatty plane" by Moghimi MH, Leonard DA, Cho CH, Schoenfeld AJ, Phan P, Harris MB, Bono CM: Eur Spine J (2016) 25;956-962.
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Moghimi
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. dleonard7@partners.org.
authors.forename: Dana A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Charles H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schoenfeld
authors.affiliation: The Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus, University of Ottawa, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4E9, Canada.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Phan
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Mitchel B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.affiliation: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bono
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D060726:Torso