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Limb Salvage Reconstruction of the Ankle with Fusion and Simultaneous Tibial Lengthening Using the Ilizarov/Taylor Spatial Frame

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    Nazzar Tellisi MD, Austin T. Fragomen MD, Svetlana Ilizarov MD & S. Robert Rozbruch MD

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Tellisi, N., Fragomen, A.T., Ilizarov, S. et al. Limb Salvage Reconstruction of the Ankle with Fusion and Simultaneous Tibial Lengthening Using the Ilizarov/Taylor Spatial Frame. HSS Jrnl 4, 32–42 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11420-007-9073-0

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