A fully implantable, programmable distraction nail (fitbone)-new perspectives for corrective and reconstructive limb surgery

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-198

  Baumgart, Rainer ^a   Thaller, Peter ^a   Hinterwimmer, Stefan ^a   Krammer, Michael ^a   Hierl, T ^a   Mutschler, Wolf ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84891979263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-32345-7_19     Document Type: Chapter

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