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Original Articles

Posttraumatic midshaft clavicular shortening does not result in relevant functional outcome changes

Observations in 32 healed, nonoperatively treated fractures

Sylvia A StegemanDepartment of Trauma SurgeryCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pieter Bas de WitteDepartment of Orthopaedics;the Laboratory for Kinematics and Neuromechanics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.Correspondence[email protected]
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Sjoerd BoonstraDepartment of Trauma SurgeryCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jurriaan H de GrootDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine;the Laboratory for Kinematics and Neuromechanics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.Correspondence[email protected]
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Jochem NagelsDepartment of OrthopaedicsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pieta KrijnenDepartment of Trauma SurgeryCorrespondence[email protected]
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Inger B SchipperDepartment of Trauma SurgeryCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 545-552 | Received 20 Nov 2014, Accepted 06 Mar 2015, Published online: 01 Sep 2015

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