Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2009; 22(02): I
DOI: 10.3415/VCOT-09-02-0023
Editorial
Schattauer GmbH

Locking plates – The ultimate implant?

"Nothing holds up the progress of science so much as the right idea at the wrong time." Vincent de Vigneaud, Canada (1978)
Kenneth Johnson
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Publication History

Publication Date:
17 December 2017 (online)

 

 
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