Insufficiency fracture of the femoral neck after intramedullary nailing
β Scribed by Izuru Kitajima; Shintaro Tachibana; Yoshihisa Mikami; Toshihito Mori; Yutaka Hirota; Kenichi Nakamichi
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0949-2658
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