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Implant failure of long Gamma nail in a patient with intertrochanteric-subtrochanteric fracture

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kyoto Kujo Hospital, 10 Karahashi Rajomon-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto, 601-8453, Japan

    Nobuyuki Yoshino, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Yukihisa Fukuda & Nobuhiko Fujita

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshinobu Watanabe, Nobuyuki Takenaka & Shinro Takai

  3. Material Information Technology Station, National Institute for Material Science, Ibaragi, Japan

    Norio Maruyama & Hideshi Sumiyoshi

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Yoshino, N., Watanabe, Y., Takenaka, N. et al. Implant failure of long Gamma nail in a patient with intertrochanteric-subtrochanteric fracture. J Orthop Sci 11, 638–643 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-006-1068-z

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