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Dennis M Meesters1,2, Karolina A P Wijnands3,4, Peter R G Brink5

  • 1Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. d.meesters@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Nutrients
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Keywords:
argininecitrullinefracture healingnitric oxidenitric oxide synthasenonunion

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