Two cases of pyrocarbon capitate resurfacing after comminuted fracture of the capitate bone
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2332-0885
DOI: 10.1080/23320885.2020.1834398