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01-02-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Are there four tibial plateau columns? Yes there are, as illustrated by a postero-lateral apple-bite fracture. Response to a letter-to-the-editor

Authors: Matthias Krause, Leif Menzdorf, Achim Preiss, Karl-Heinz Frosch

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 2/2018

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Title: Are there four tibial plateau columns? Yes there are, as illustrated by a postero-lateral apple-bite fracture. Response to a letter-to-the-editor
Authors: Matthias Krause
Leif Menzdorf
Achim Preiss
Karl-Heinz Frosch
Publication date: 01-02-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-017-3686-9

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