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Less than full circumferential fusion of a tibial nonunion is sufficient to achieve mechanically valid fusion - Proof of concept using a finite element modeling approach

BACKGROUND: Although minimally invasive approaches are widely used in many areas of orthopedic surgery nonunion therapy remains a domain of open surgery. Some attempts have been made to introduce minimally invasive procedures into nonunion therapy. However, these proof of concept studies showed fusi...

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Autores principales: Tjardes, Thorsten, Roland, Michael, Otchwemah, Robin, Dahmen, Tim, Diebels, Stefan, Bouillon, Bertil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25511086
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-434