The results of treatment for isolated zone 3 extensor tendon injuries
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Extensor Tendon Injuries
Little originality is claimed for this paper, which reports some of the cases treated at the Londoii Hospital during the last year. There are nearly 24,000 attendances in the Orthopaedic and ACcident Department each year, of which about 6,000 are accident cases. Since no l)eds can he reserved for these patients the vast majority have to be treated as out-patients afl(l ( ) )erate(1 011 under lo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1017-995X
DOI: 10.3944/aott.2009.309