Educational Corner

Closed Femoral Nailing of Acute Femoral Shaft Fractures with the AO-Femoral Distractor: An Educational Corner

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Bone Nails External Fixators Femur Femoral Fractures

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Sharifpour S, Mirghaderi SP, Dehghani A, Bagheri N, Zarei M, Kalantar SH. Closed Femoral Nailing of Acute Femoral Shaft Fractures with the AO-Femoral Distractor: An Educational Corner. J Orthop Spine Trauma. 2022;8(4):134-7.