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Treatment of humeral shaft non-unions by the Ilizarov method

M Kocaoğlu1, L Eralp, Y Tomak

  • 1Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Turkey. kocaoglum@superonline.com

International Orthopaedics
|February 1, 2002
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