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01-11-2012 | Letter to the Editor

Can we always trust in the computer? Adequate tibial alignment and flexion-gap balancing using personalised knee arthroplasty cutting blocks

Authors: Norbert Kastner, Gerald Gruber, Patrick Sadoghi

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 11/2012

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Title: Can we always trust in the computer? Adequate tibial alignment and flexion-gap balancing using personalised knee arthroplasty cutting blocks
Authors: Norbert Kastner
Gerald Gruber
Patrick Sadoghi
Publication date: 01-11-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 11/2012
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-012-1647-x

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