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Treatment of Ankle Osteoarthritis with Total Ankle Replacement Through a Lateral Transfibular Approach
Published on: January 24, 2018
A challenging cause of mono-arthritis of the ankle
S A J ter Horst1, F M Vanhoenacker, H M Kroon
1Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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