Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Death, Taxes, and Trapeziometacarpal Arthrosis

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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research

سال: 2013

ISSN: 0009-921X

DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3320-0