History of the AO and its global effect on operative fracture treatment

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 347, Issue , 1998, Pages 11-18

  Matter, Peter ^a,b  

^a Arbeitsgemeinshaft Fur Osteosynthesefragen   (Switzerland)

^b AO Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SWITZERLAND;

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0031992248     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199802000-00003     Document Type: Article

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