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Two-stage reconstruction with free vascularized soft tissue transfer and conventional bone graft for infected nonunions of the tibia: 6 patients followed for 1.5 to 5 years

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Pages 878-883 | Received 14 Nov 2004, Accepted 24 Feb 2005, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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