A Year behind Bars: Treatment of Compound Monteggia Fracture by External Fixation
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107689709000909