Failure of union

Nonunion of the Long Bones: Diagnosis and Treatment with Compression-Distraction Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 27-37

  Mora, Redento ^a,b   Pedrotti, Luisella ^b   Galli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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EID: 84892105288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/88-470-0409-8_3     Document Type: Chapter

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