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Blount’s disease successfully treated with intraepiphyseal osteotomy with elevation of the medial plateau of the tibia—a case report with 65 years’ follow-up

Terje TerjesenOrthopaedic Department, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway; Correspondence[email protected]
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Darko AnticevicDepartment of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Zagreb Children’s Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
Pages 699-701 | Received 11 Jun 2018, Accepted 02 Jul 2018, Published online: 17 Oct 2018

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