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Letter to the Editor: Surgical Technique: Tscherne-Johnson Extensile Approach for Tibial Plateau Fractures

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Correspondence to Shi-Min Chang MD, PhD.

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(RE: Johnson EE, Timon S, Osuji C. Surgical technique: Tscherne-Johnson extensile approach for tibial plateau fractures. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2013;471:2760-2767.)

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Du, SC., Zhang, YQ. & Chang, SM. Letter to the Editor: Surgical Technique: Tscherne-Johnson Extensile Approach for Tibial Plateau Fractures. Clin Orthop Relat Res 472, 4035–4036 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-014-3916-z

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