Pneumatic wound compression after hip fracture surgery
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Pneumatic wound compression after hip fracture surgery
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453670903317114 Sir—I have read with interest the article by Dr. Apelqvist et al. In their well-performed study they did not find pneumatic wound compres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Orthopaedica
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1745-3674,1745-3682
DOI: 10.3109/17453670903317114