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01-10-2020 | Endoprosthesis | Letter to the Editor

Reply to “Megaprosthesis in distal femur nonunions in elderly patients—experience from twenty-four cases: a letter to editor”

Authors: Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran, Dhanasekara Raja Palanisami, Rajkumar Natesan, Dheenadhayalan Jayaramaraju, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 10/2020

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Vaishya R, Vaish A (2020) Megaprosthesis in distal femur non-unions in elderly patients-experience from twenty-four cases: a letter to editor. Int Orthop 44(4):811–812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-019-04406-xCrossRefPubMed

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Title: Reply to “Megaprosthesis in distal femur nonunions in elderly patients—experience from twenty-four cases: a letter to editor”
Authors: Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran
Dhanasekara Raja Palanisami
Rajkumar Natesan
Dheenadhayalan Jayaramaraju
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran
Publication date: 01-10-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Endoprosthesis
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 10/2020
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-020-04586-x

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