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Surgical treatment of osteoporotic fractures about the knee

Daniel S Horwitz1, Erik N Kubiak

  • 1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84105, USA.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume
|December 3, 2009
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