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01-06-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Reply to the letter to the editor “Minimized approaches to the posterolateral chest wall in the fixation of rib fracture” by Yih-Wen Tarng, Yi-Pin Chou, Tung-Ho Wu, Hsing-Lin Lin

Authors: Stefan Schulz-Drost, Andreas Langenbach

Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery | Issue 3/2018

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Dear respected collegues, …

Tarng Y‑W, Chou Y‑P, Wu T‑H, Lin H‑L Letter to the Editor “Minimized approaches to the posterolateral chest wall in the fixation of rib fracture”. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-018-0931-x.

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Title: Reply to the letter to the editor “Minimized approaches to the posterolateral chest wall in the fixation of rib fracture” by Yih-Wen Tarng, Yi-Pin Chou, Tung-Ho Wu, Hsing-Lin Lin
Authors: Stefan Schulz-Drost
Andreas Langenbach
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 1863-9933
Electronic ISSN: 1863-9941
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-018-0952-5

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