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The Transition to an Anterior-Based Muscle Sparing Approach Improves Early Postoperative Function but is Associated with a Learning Curve
Published on: September 7, 2022
A 48-year-old Somali woman with hip pain
N Esther Babady1, Bobbi S Pritt, Randall C Walker
1Division of Clinical Microbiology and 2Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
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