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Management of Femur and Tibial Leg Length Discrepancies With a Unilateral External Fixator Is Still Viable When More Advanced Techniques and Hardware Are Unavailable or Cost-Prohibitive
Introduction Leg length discrepancy (LLD) is an infrequent diagnosis, most commonly occurring congenitally in children and rarely in traumatic incidents in adults. Circumferential external fixators are considered the optimal treatment method, but can be very costly and are not always readily availab...
Autores principales: | Borici, Neritan, Ezeokoli, Ekene U, Ruci, Julian, Olldashi, Taulant |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818289/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154982 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21010 |
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