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01-01-2020 | Knee-TEP | Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor concerning the paper “Long-term outcome of total knee arthroplasty in morbid obesity patients”

Authors: Chao Tu, Wanchun Wang, Zhihong Li

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 1/2020

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Dear editors: …

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Title: Letter to the Editor concerning the paper “Long-term outcome of total knee arthroplasty in morbid obesity patients”
Authors: Chao Tu
Wanchun Wang
Zhihong Li
Publication date: 01-01-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Knee-TEP
Obesity
Obesity
Knee-TEP
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-019-04410-1

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