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Knee Osteotomy

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Orthopedic Surgery in Patients with Hemophilia

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Abstract

Classic hemophilia is the most common of the inherited disorders of blood coagulation that are transmitted in a sex-linked, recessive manner. The incidence of hemophilia A is approximately 0.1 in 1000 male births and for hemophilia B it is 0.02 in 1000 male births.

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  1. Hemophilia Centre, University Hospital of Paraná, Paraná, Brazil

    Luciano da Rocha Loures Pacheco

  2. University Hospital of Paraná, Paraná, Brazil

    Maurício Alexandre de Meneses Pereira & Cyro Kanabushi

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  1. Department of Orthopedics, Hemophilia Foundation and General Hospital de Agudos “Juan A. Fernandez”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Horacio A. Caviglia

  2. Hemophilic Arthropathy Treatment Centre “Maria Grazia Gatti Randi”, Milan, Italy

    Luigi Piero Solimeno

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Pacheco, L.d.R.L., Pereira, M.A.d.M., Kanabushi, C. (2008). Knee Osteotomy. In: Caviglia, H.A., Solimeno, L.P. (eds) Orthopedic Surgery in Patients with Hemophilia. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0854-0_24

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