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Limb lengthening over a nail can safely reduce the duration of external fixation
BACKGROUND: Limb lengthening using Ilizarov external fixation is safe, but the consolidation phase tends to take too long. A method that can safely reduce the time spent in external fixation would help increase patient tolerance and comfort. We report our results of lengthening over nails (LON) meth...
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Medknow Publications
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739482/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19753160 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.41857 |