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01-04-2017 | Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Not the Last Word: Safety Alert: One in 200 Knee Replacement Patients Die Within 90 Days of Surgery

Authors: James Robert Berstock, MBChB, FRCS, MD, Michael Whitehouse, BSc, MBChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, PGCert

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 4/2017

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Title: Letter to the Editor: Not the Last Word: Safety Alert: One in 200 Knee Replacement Patients Die Within 90 Days of Surgery
Authors: James Robert Berstock, MBChB, FRCS, MD
Michael Whitehouse, BSc, MBChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, PGCert
Publication date: 01-04-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 4/2017
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-017-5247-3

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