Femoral fracture fixation in developing countries: an evaluation of the Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) intramedullary nail.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume

• Publication date

  2011-10-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2106/JBJS.J.01322PMID 22005867
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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