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Technical tip: fixation of medial malleolar fractures using a suture anchor

David T Loveday1, Angus Arthur, Graham M Tytherleigh-Strong

  • 1Department of Orthopaedics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University, Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK. davidloveday@hotmail.com

Foot & Ankle International
|January 30, 2009
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