Distal locking with mechanical jig (author's own technique)

Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 271-274

  Anastopoulos, George ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

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EID: 46149114578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32345-7_27     Document Type: Chapter

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