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Totally absorbable fixation devices in glenohumeral fractures

✍ Scribed by EK Partio; E Hirvensalo; K Jukkala-Partio; H Pihlajamäki; P Rokkanen

Book ID
117715691
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
112 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1532-6500

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