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Acute reconstruction of the medial collateral ligament of the elbow for severe valgus instability after anterior elbow dislocation

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  1. Orthopaedic Department, General Hospital of Veria, Verias-Asomaton Street, 59100, Veria, Greece

    Elias Fotiadis, Theodoros Svarnas, Efthimios Iliopoulos, Alexis Papadopoulos & Apostolos Gantsos

  2. Orthopaedic Department, Avenue Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Byron Chalidis

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Fotiadis, E., Svarnas, T., Iliopoulos, E. et al. Acute reconstruction of the medial collateral ligament of the elbow for severe valgus instability after anterior elbow dislocation. J Orthop Sci 15, 594–597 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00776-009-1471-3

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