CORR Insights®: Isolated Trochanteric Descent and Greater Trochanteric Apophyseodesis Are Not Effective in the Treatment of Post-Perthes Deformity

Overview

Journal Clin Orthop Relat Res

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2019 Dec 4

PMID 31794494

Authors

Andrzej Grzegorzewski

Affiliations

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