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Long Bones

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A middle-aged adventurous man was some years ago on a 10-day motorbike trip through Peru. On his way back from the jungle Madre de Dios to Cuzco, our experienced motorbiker did not see a hole in the jungle track by the dirt blown up by his fellow companions.

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Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y. (2010). Long Bones. In: Biomaterials. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4_6

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