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Jafari D, Ajvadi A. A Novel Handmade External Fixator for Phalangeal and Metacarpal Fractures. J. Res. Orthop. Sci. 2017; 4 (1)
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1- Bone and Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Shafa Orthopedic Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Copyright © 2016, Iran University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
1. Background
2. Objectives
3. Methods
4. Results
5. Discussion
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Subject: Knee surgery
Received: 2019/09/9 | Accepted: 2017/02/15 | Published: 2017/02/15

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