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Simultaneous bilateral Salter-Harris type II injuries followed by unilateral Salter-Harris type III injury of the proximal tibia in an adolescent with osteogenesis imperfecta

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

    Nobuyuki Yoshino, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Yukihisa Fukuda & Nobuhiko Fujita

  2. Nijigaoka Orthopaedic Clinic, Matsusaka, Mie, Japan

    Tetsuya Kitamura

  3. Department of Orthopaedics, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshinobu Watanabe & Shinro Takai

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Yoshino, N., Watanabe, N., Fukuda, Y. et al. Simultaneous bilateral Salter-Harris type II injuries followed by unilateral Salter-Harris type III injury of the proximal tibia in an adolescent with osteogenesis imperfecta. J Orthop Sci 15, 153–158 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-009-1409-9

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