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Letter to the editor on “STRYDE versus PRECICE magnetic internal lengthening nail for femur lengthening”

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    Björn Vogt, Jan Duedal Rölfing, Robert Roedl & Adrien Frommer

  2. Children’s Orthopaedics and Reconstruction, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, 8200, Aarhus, Denmark

    Jan Duedal Rölfing

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BV: board member of GEVR.de without compensation and payment for travel, presentations and lectures by Merete Medical and Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, outside the submitted work; JDR: editor and board member of the Danish Society of Orthopaedics (ortopaedi.dk) and consultant for Orthofix Academy. RR: board member of kinderorthopaedie.org (VKO) without compensation and personal fees, consultant for Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Smith + Nephew, Merete Medical, Kyowa Kirin and Biomarine outside the submitted work. AF: no disclosures.

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Vogt, B., Rölfing, J.D., Roedl, R. et al. Letter to the editor on “STRYDE versus PRECICE magnetic internal lengthening nail for femur lengthening”. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 142, 3563–3564 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-021-04074-w

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