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Failure of humeral fracture fixation plate in a young patient using the Philos system: case report

Amit Ramesh Tolat1, Andrew Amis, Shaun Crofton

  • 1Orthopaedic Surgery Department, King's College Hospital, London, England. atolat7@yahoo.com <atolat7@yahoo.com>

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
|October 3, 2006
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