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    Laurent Audigé & B. Hanson

  2. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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Audigé, L., Hanson, B. & Swiontkowski, M.F. Answer to Handoll and Parker. International Orthopaedics (SICOT) 28, 62–63 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-003-0529-7

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