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Original articles

Pathologic Fractures due to Metastatic Disease A Retrospective Study of 160 Surgically Treated Fractures

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Pages 255-260 | Received 13 Dec 1997, Accepted 30 Jun 1998, Published online: 16 Nov 2020

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