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Marked varus deformity due to insufficiency fracture of the proximal tibia treated by open-wedge high tibial osteotomy: a case report

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, 2-1-1 Tomioka, Urayasu, Chiba, 279-0021, Japan

    Yuichiro Maruyama, Aki Osawa & Yoshimi Mamiya

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan

    Kazuo Kaneko

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Maruyama, Y., Osawa, A., Mamiya, Y. et al. Marked varus deformity due to insufficiency fracture of the proximal tibia treated by open-wedge high tibial osteotomy: a case report. Eur Orthop Traumatol 6, 281–285 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12570-014-0282-y

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