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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

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  1. Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery with Division of Knee and Shoulder Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Asklepios Clinic St. Georg, Lohmuehlenstr. 5, 20099, Hamburg, Germany

    Matthias Krause, Leif Menzdorf, Achim Preiss & Karl-Heinz Frosch

  2. Fracture Committee of the German Knee Society, Hamburg, Germany

    Matthias Krause & Karl-Heinz Frosch

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Krause, M., Menzdorf, L., Preiss, A. et al. 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. International Orthopaedics (SICOT) 42, 443–446 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-017-3686-9

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